Why Microsoft Wants Us to Get All Mixed Up

Mixed source is a term being bantered about a lot these days...

“'What's in a name?' some bloke in the sixteenth century once asked. As Microsoft knows, quite a lot. What you call something can have a major influence on how you think about it. So how Microsoft talks about free software is important--not least for the clues that it gives about its latest tactical move to defang the open source threat.

"This is by no means a new approach. Some years back I was in a meeting with a senior Microsoftie in the UK. Nominally, he wanted to talk to me about Microsoft's 'new' free software-friendly attitude--isn't it telling how often Microsoft keeps promising that *this* time it really means it...?" [Read more]