[xcthulhu]

Isn't Microsoft's schizophrenic relationship with FOSS old news? The same company that claims "Linux is a cancer" also employs K.Y. Srinivasan, a topic linux kernel contributor [1], and Simon Peyton Jones of Haskell fame.

Microsoft's competitors Apple and Google have dealt with OSS much more gracefully. While I don't approve of this approach, these companies 'embraced' open source with projects like Darwin and Android OS, and then twisted the efforts in proprietary directions. I don't know if this strategy was ever really available to Microsoft, however.

[1] http://lwn.net/Articles/451243/

[pjmlp]

Yes they are quite schizophrenic and it is funny that you mention Simon Peyton Jones.

There are actually many open source technologies, whose development is done by Microsoft Research employees or mainly funded by Microsoft, Haskell and Ocaml being two of them.

But working for big corporations was taught me that they are quite schizophrenic usually.