[LUAU] Re: Microsoft's Open Source web site

Matt Darnell mattdarnell at gmail.com
Thu Apr 6 19:55:56 PDT 2006


Here is link - http://port25.technet.com/default.aspx

On 4/6/06, Matt Darnell <mattdarnell at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> It looks legit.....
>
> Here is an example post:
>
> Dear Microsoft:
>
> Before investigating Linux, would you guys please do the following so we
> can testify of your good faith?
>
> * Opening the Excel and Word binary formats
> * Adapting the Open Document Format for Microsoft Word
> * Fixing the Web Folders to be 100% compatible with existing standards (I
> want to use webfolders on my php-based site!)
> * Adopting the ext2 and ext3 (and reiser if possible) file systems for
> Windows XP and Vista
> * Releasing the Internet Explorer sourcecode (including but not limited to
> the extensions like XML and XSLT handling) under the GPL
> * Supporting the w3c standards in Internet Explorer - for this we web
> designers have had to endure constant headaches.
> * Promise not to file any patent suits against Open Source programmers and
> companies
> * Stop the "embrace and extend" business please...
>
> Also, there's something I have against Microsoft. For years I've found
> bugs in various of your products but me, as a mere mortal user have found no
> means to contact you. Please adopt collaboration tools like Sourceforge -
> trust me, they're great.
>
> P.S. If you could get Steve out of the company and put MiniMSFT in his
> place, I'd be delighted :D
>
> Thanks!
>



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