Despite Criticism, Microsoft Exec Defends Open Source Progress
As critics continue to question Microsoft’s commitment to working with the open source community, a key Microsoft official last week argued the company has made significant progress while defending its right to enforce patents. And he made his defense on the open source community’s turf: the Open Source Business Conference (OSBC) held in San Francisco.
In a keynote address at OSBC, Robert Youngjohns, Microsoft’s president of North America sales and marketing, said skeptics should ignore the company’s storied history of open source bashing and focus instead on its newfound commitment to open technologies like the PHP dynamic scripting language and open file formats, as well as its pursuit of interoperability between Windows and Linux.
“You have to judge us by our performance and actions, rather than what we said,” Youngjohns said.
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