News Comment This is a comment on news story: Is Microsoft really lending Linux a helping hand? It's a reply to comment: If you have to ask... Allow me to clarify. by: Bob Robertson  Let me clarify. If Microsoft wanted to "interoperate", every protocol, every API, every file format used by F/OSS is well documented, easily available, and free to use. Microsoft could be 100% "interoperable" tomorrow if they wanted to be. Microsoft does _not_ want to be interoperable. Microsoft wants everyone else to play with Microsoft's ball on Microsoft's turf so that Microsoft controls the game. Any overtures by Microsoft are smoke and mirrors to disguise their one and only motivation: Extending Microsoft's control and Vendor Lock-In. Hasn't anyone read the Halloween Documents?
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