Microsoft Does a 180

…or so it would seem. After calling Open Source a cancer and “evil” in the past, they now seem to be dabbling in it. Now, from reading some of their past comments we can now deduce that they only think the GPL is pure evil, and they are willing to give Open Source at least a quick once over (they have chosen IBM's CPL at this point). It has to make you wonder though, what will Microsoft do after thousands of FOSS developers have seen some of their code. Will they try to go after some people or projects? Let's hope not. The one thing I would like to see MSFT open up a bit is their document formats. It would really work to help level the playing field and end some of the compatibility issues that are really annoying. I can't see it happening, but hey – one can hope.
–jeremy