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- Does Hilf speak for Microsoft on open source?
- Does Hilf speak for Microsoft on open source?Does a Tiger have stripes?An Elephant a trunk? A Leopard spots?You bet he does, and the cows will come home before he changes them, too.Be sure to face the speaker so you can see what comes out of both sides of his mouth....
- Tags: Does Hilf, open source, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-11-16
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- Pure play open source Microsoft ISV details transformation from proprietary world
- One Boston-area enterprise application software vendor detailed its transformation from a proprietary company into a purely open source ISV – at Microsoft's local headquarters last night. Aras Corp, of Andover, Mass, decided last January to begin offering its commercially established multi-platform product lifecycle management PLM...
- Tags: Aras Corp., Microsoft Corp., Open Source, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2007-11-30
- Does Hilf speak for Microsoft on open source?
- Information Week has published a fawning interview with Microsoft's Bill Hilf right, now general manager of Windows Server marketing and platform strategy, stating he was "revealing" the company's open source strategy. In fact he did nothing of the kind. He claimed proprietary software offers a "guarantee" it works...
- Tags: Information Week, Microsoft Corp., Bill Hilf, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-11-16
- Bad cop thunders, good cop moves at Microsoft
- Bad cop thunders, good cop moves at MicrosoftNaw .... Never happen ..Quote:"There are problems with either approach. Any shakedown would go to court, because it’s a guarantee not all Red Hat customers will go along. And the Eolas patent covers embed technology used on Web pages, which is not part...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp., Eolas Technologies Inc., Linux, patent, Red Hat Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-10-09
- Bad cop thunders, good cop moves at Microsoft
- The good cop-bad cop dance continues at Microsoft, with bad cop CEO Steve Ballmer again threatening Linux with litigation while good cop Bill Hilf is made master of all Windows Server marketing. (The image is still the logo of this fine Boston music publisher.) Ballmer's latest tirade...
- Tags: Red Hat Inc., Eolas Technologies Inc., Microsoft Corp., Linux, Open Source, Operating Systems, UNIX, Servers, Software, Hardware, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-10-09
- Microsoft's Ballmer calls out Red Hat with more patent threats
- Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is back on the "Linux violates our patents" kick. But this time, he's calling out Red Hat, specifically, for allegedly infringing on Microsoft IP. At the UK launch of Microsoft's Startup Accelerator Programme last week, Ballmer said it's only a matter of time...
- Tags: Red Hat Inc., Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp., Linux, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2007-10-09
- Has Google become evil in the eyes of open source?
- An exchange of e-mails between Bill Hilf of Microsoft and Chris DiBona of Google concerning Microsoft's OSI license application has drawn an interesting reaction in the press.They're taking Microsoft's side. (Harold Perrineau Jr. played Mercutio in a 1996 film production of Romeo & Juliet. Wha? Read on.)This is a major...
- Tags: Software, Google Inc., Open Source, Microsoft Corp., Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-08-21
- Microsoft and open source: Frost sightings in hell
- (This is a guest post by Stephen Walli, a software consultant specializing in open-source, and a former Microsoft program manager for the Shared Source implementation of the ECMA Common Language Infrastructure.)Bill Hilf, Microsoft General Manager of Platform Strategy, announced two things last week at the O'Reilly Open Source Conference in...
- Tags: Shared Source, Linux, Corporate strategy
- Blog posts 2007-08-03
- Will Microsoft fit into OSI compromise?
- The last time I wrote about the OSI it was to praise the "peace deal" it made on the licensing front.The question today is, can Microsoft fit inside that deal?At the same OSCON conference where OSI approved its first "attribution" license, Microsoft "good cop" Bill Hilf left said last week...
- Tags: Strategy, Software Licensing, Red Hat, Microsoft, Legal, General, Events
- Blog posts 2007-07-31
- Hanrahan hire shows true Microsoft weakness
- Microsoft's hire of Tom Hanrahan right, formerly director of engineering for the Linux Foundation (and before that of the OSDL, one of its predecessors) says a lot about the company's true open source situation.Hanrahan will now be running Microsoft's interoperability lab, which it set up after its Novell deal. His immediate...
- Tags: support, Strategy, Microsoft, Linux Server OS, Linux Desktop OS, Linux, General
- Blog posts 2007-06-11
- Microsoft provides first public demo of the Surface tabletop
- Microsoft provides first public demo of the Surface tabletopI hate to say this but all I will be seeing is bashing, fear, and hate.Everytime there's a Microsoft-related article, expect lots of bashing/hate/fear from ABMers who always blame and hate Microsoft.I thought I should let anyone (who likes/cares about Microsoft) know.A...
- Tags: INTERNET, Microsoft Windows, Corporate communications, Strategy, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-06-09
- Microsoft and patent claims: 'Business as usual'?
- Microsoft and patent claims: 'Business as usual'?"transparency"The motivation for releasing the "patent numbers" had nothing whatsoever to do with "more transparency".It was all about expanding the extortion game.Make no mistake, this may be all about using FUD to levy an illegitimate MS tax on FOSS for the moment but MS...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Corp., software
- Discussion threads 2007-05-20
- Microsoft and patent claims: 'Business as usual'?
- Bill Hilf, Microsoft's General Manager of Platform Strategy, has finally blogged about Microsoft's decision to go public with its claims that it has found 235 patent violations by open source software on various Microsoft products."Our IP strategy has not changed," said Hilf and Microsoft's head of the company's open-source-software...
- Tags: Linux, Legal, Corporate strategy
- Blog posts 2007-05-20
- Tiptoeing through the patent minefield
- Tiptoeing through the patent minefieldKey point"As the Gates memo showed, Microsoft has for most of its history considered its competitive advantage to be software. Patents are a somewhat late addition to the Microsoft business arsenal, an event to which Microsoft must respond, but it’s worth remembering Microsoft’s core DNA."Furthermore, not...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., patent
- Discussion threads 2007-05-16
- Microsoft: If we're violating IP, 'we'll take a license'
- On May 13, Microsoft finally put a number behind its previous claims that open-source software violated Microsoft patents. In an article published in Fortune Magazine, Microsoft IP lawyers claimed that free and open-source software FOSS violates 235 Microsoft patents. Now, courtesy of the same Microsoft public-relations representative who provided us...
- Tags: Corporate strategy, Legal, Linux, Novell
- Blog posts 2007-05-16
- Microsoft: A law firm pretending to be an army pretending to be a software company
- Microsoft: A law firm pretending to be an army pretending to be a software companyThere's no future for developers with Microsoft, plain and simpleMicrosoft secretly funded SCO for years and years, and though not successful, they want to hit the replay button, all because [b]everything changed[/b] 2006 and by 2007,...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Intellectual property, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Corp., software
- Discussion threads 2007-05-15
- GPLv3 the impetus for Microsoft's latest Linux attack campaign
- With one stroke, Microsoft has ended any illusion that it planned to try to build bridges with the open-source community. And it appears the primary reason for Microsofts decision to go back on the public attack against Linux and other open-source software is the looming Version 3 of the Free...
- Tags: Corporate strategy, Legal, Linux, Novell
- Blog posts 2007-05-14
- Red Hat takes OLPC knowledge corporate
- Red Hat takes OLPC knowledge corporatecollaborationThe oplc sugar gui is designed for collaboration. With all the increased corporate interest in collaboration, maybe that is going to be one of the selling points.By the way, your picture of the olpc computer is out of date. The new version doesn't have the...
- Tags: Linux, OPEN SOURCE, Intel Corp., Red Hat Inc., Microsoft Corp., collaboration, One Laptop Per Child project
- Discussion threads 2007-05-09
- Microsoft Tech Summit: The 'non-fanboys' descend on Redmond
- Microsoft is big on inviting not just its customers and partners, but non-believers, too, to visit the Microsoft campus and discover for themselves that Softies are people, too. (And who better to ask than Java, PHP and Linux developers -- as Microsoft execs seemingly did several times during...
- Tags: WPF/e, Windows server, Windows client, Web 2.0, Visual Studio Orcas, Shared Source, Linux, Development tools, Corporate strategy
- Blog posts 2007-03-30
- Linux power lunch: Debian founder visits Microsoft
- Ian Murdock, the chief technology officer of the recently formed Linux Foundation created from the merger of ODL and the Free Standards Group is set to address a group of Microsoft employees on February 20. The subject of Murdocks "Invited Speaker Series" talk: The Debian Linux distribution. ...
- Tags: Corporate strategy, Linux, Novell
- Blog posts 2007-02-20
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