Linux Foundation - We'd Love to Work with Microsoft

johnno writes "In an interview with the Australian site pc world Jim Zemlin, the Linux Foundation's executive director, talks about the desire to interoperate with Microsoft and discusses the desktop outlook for Linux. He answers questions on the kind of legal protection Linux requires, whether anything ever come of the Microsoft protest that there's Linux code that they have patented, as well as Linux penetration on desktops and breaking Microsoft's stranglehold on the market. He also discusses Microsoft's recent move to open up their documentation, and why they'd like to work with the Redmond giant — 'We'd like to have a place where developers can come and work on making Linux more effectively interoperate with Microsoft products. And we'd like to do that in the open-source way that's not tied to any specific marketing agreement, that's not tied to any specific contract, that is an open process that can be participated in by anyone in the community,' Zemlin says."

Embrace, extend, extinguish..

[somersault]

And why not? :)

No car analogy, but....

[zappepcs]

reading this is like seeing a video clip of a one legged Iraqi kid with a stereo boom box playing 'Give peace a chance' ... or something like that.

Panic Time

[Anonymous Coward]

Slashdot: Dont fear the penguins

"We'd Love to Work with Microsoft"

Can i be afraid now?

Re:When I am weak

[Thanshin]

When I am weak, how can I compromise? When I am strong, why should I compromise?

What about when you're neither?

Obviously:
When you're neither, where should you compromise?
When you're both, when should you compromise?

And finally, when you're both and neither, you shouldn't ever not uncompromise.

Microsoft Agrees

[cordsie]

In the same sense that Hillary would 'love to work with' Obama.

In related news:

[geminidomino]

Zookeepers declare "We'd love to smother ourselves in steak sauce and try to masturbate the bears..."

Also...

[snarfies]

We'd also like a solid gold toilet. And a pony.