Wow… this could be the day that changes the computer world forever. Microsoft Corp. today announced a set of broad-reaching changes to its technology and business practices to increase the openness of its products and drive greater interoperability, opportunity and choice for developers, partners, customers and competitors.
In short, 30,000 pages of protocol details exposed, commitment not to sue developers who expand upon those, new APIs for the Office products to other formats and to permit users to set those formats as defaults and lastly, launching the Open Source Interoperability Initiative – "to promote and enable more interoperability between commercial and community-based open source technologies and Microsoft products".
Does that mean I can quit feeling guilty about running this blog off Linux and open source software?
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