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	Microsoft to open source community: Let’s talk (maybe)

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3-26-2008 3:58 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/23a3f767-b8b5-4a31-95aa-1d9760c8fd93/F69C2399-B4F4-46E3-AB1F-6F338619ACAE/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://venturebeat.com/2008/03/25/microsoft-to-open-source-community-lets-talk-maybe/" href="http://venturebeat.com/2008/03/25/microsoft-to-open-source-community-lets-talk-maybe/" style="font-size: 11px;">venturebeat.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://venturebeat.com/2008/03/25/microsoft-to-open-source-community-lets-talk-maybe/"><H3><A title="Permanent Link to Microsoft to open source community: Let’s talk (maybe)" rel="bookmark" href="http://venturebeat.com/2008/03/25/microsoft-to-open-source-community-lets-talk-maybe/">Microsoft to open source community: Let’s talk (maybe)</A></H3></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://venturebeat.com/2008/03/25/microsoft-to-open-source-community-lets-talk-maybe/"><P><IMG alt="msftlogos.jpg" src="http://venturebeat.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/msftlogos.jpg" />This afternoon, Microsoft’s general counsel <A href="http://http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/exec/bradsmith/default.mspx">Brad Smith</A> acknowledged that actions speak louder than words. But words are worthwhile too, he said.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://venturebeat.com/2008/03/25/microsoft-to-open-source-community-lets-talk-maybe/"><P>A whole lot of words (not the promise of action, much less action itself) is what a skeptical crowd got at Smith’s speech, one of the keynotes at the InfoWorld  <A id="r6ee" title="Open Source Business Conference" href="http://www.osbc.com/">Open Source Business Conference</A>. Smith’s remarks seemed like an olive branch to the open source community, but for the most part he stuck to general assurances that Microsoft wants to work with open source companies. When it came to specific complaints, Smith just repeated, “It’s a complicated issue.”</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/F69C2399-B4F4-46E3-AB1F-6F338619ACAE/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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