[News] Microsoft 'Insider' Spotted in OpenLogics's 'Open Source' Monitoring Project

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Microsoft Joins Open Source Usage Spying Program

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| From OpenLogic's (the parent company of the OSC) team website:
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| Steven L. Grandchamp, CEO . . .
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| Steven also held various senior management positions with Microsoft including
| the application development segment of Microsoft Consulting Services. Steven
| spent the early part of his career in progressively responsible IT roles in
| the banking industry.
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[url]http://technocrat.net/d/2008/6/17/43756[/url]

Yesterday:

Conspiracy theory: Microsoft sponsors open source census to prepare for
lawsuits

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| My guess? I think Microsoft wants access to the results both so it can
| understand open source but also so it can start to consider legal actions
| against the most popular products and the companies that develop them.
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| I'll apologize in advance if the motives are completely altruistic but if the
| past is any evidence, we should really avoid giving this kind of information
| to Microsoft with no benefits attached to open source.
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[url]http://news.cnet.com/8301-13846_3-9969662-62.html[/url]

Reaction to News of Microsoft's Support of Open Source Census

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| When we first told you about the Open Source Census back in April, there were
| already a number of sponsors, "with more expected to sign on in the future."
| Well, today, another sponsor was announced and the name may surprise you --
| or maybe not. Microsoft. As expected, some open source supporters are in a
| twist over the news, while others are waxing philosophical.
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| ZDNet's Mary-Jo Foley thinks that perhaps the move is motivated by
| Microsoft's desire for greater interoperability with open source systems, and
| also to gain a "better understanding of where/how open-source software is
| gaining traction in enterprises in order to better fight it."
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[url]http://ostatic.com/165226-blog/reaction-to-news-of-microsofts-support-of-open-source-census#rss[/url]

Microsoft buddies up to open source "census": Conspiracy?

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| I think Microsoft just wants to be associated with any good-hearted
| open-source effort, so that it can appear...good hearted, without actually
| engaging open source in any deep, meaningful way.
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[url]http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-9969819-16.html[/url]
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