These “good” news are only scary, just wait and you will surely see that Microsoft is still the same of these 30 years.

Besides FOSS has (and will) never have any need of them to survive and evolve.

Give up on the patents claims, and i will eat my words, until then, you can talk all what you want and open as much “oss” sites as you want. They’re all based on lies.

Oh wait! An open source repository?? but the idea has been implemented previously by someone else…hope that sourceforge will “not sue” them!

Kudos on a detailed and insightful piece…and you’re spot on about Microsoft realizing it’s value as a platform. Interestingly enough, I never bought the claims that Microsoft should have been more “open source friendly” in the past. Multi-national behemoths aren’t “friendly” to anything except what’s profitable and until recently it was profitable to attack open source with FUD and mudslinging. Now that things have changed, we’re seeing Microsoft’s strategy do the same. With that being said, I think Microsoft has more to gain than it does to lose from embracing open source. In light of the fact that its Windows cash cow is facing the prospect of stiff competition on the desktop and server fronts, certified open source stacks will stem the rising tide of migration from Windows to alternatives.