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Microsoft's Savvy Open Source Move

FWIW, Microsoft could significantly add to the trust required of those who invest their time and energy in their platform, by quitting their shenanigans.

Then they could add to that by releasing significant developer and platform tools - the Visual [Programming Language] Express comes to mind, as does older versions of their Windows OS - under an Open Source Initiative-approved license. The two Microsoft-branded OSI-approved licenses come to mind; regretfully not their names.

That's more than IBM does, and IBM is becoming a trusted member of the Free and Open Source communities. It seems Microsoft is trying out the asymptotic approach to the FOSS communities.