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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Microsoft is also supporting OpenSim though indirectly. They
have offered internal resources and have recently made some big commitments for
huge events to be hosted on ReactionGrid including their official presence
there. <br>
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We are working with them on possibly adding Windows Media player to the client
along with SQL Server 2008 improvements from our internal team. We will
be announcing some of these big projects soon along with news about 2 case studies
on ReactionGrid/OpenSim that are about to be posted on their site. We hope to
get them more involved this year than ever before & both our team and
Microsoft has huge respect for what the developers have created here using
C#/.NET. Some collaboration is even forming between MS, Intel & IBM that
should help development as well.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Thanks Neb for the usually lacking opposing view. Microsoft
doesn’t always make the best choices but there is a lot they do that
never reaches the press and one of those is their amazement and support of
OpenSim which should start showing better in 2009. Again thanks to
everyone for this incredible project ReactionGrid exists due to your efforts
and some great tools by Microsoft.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Thanks again everyone for creating OpenSim-Kyle G<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> opensim-dev-bounces@lists.berlios.de
[mailto:opensim-dev-bounces@lists.berlios.de] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Nebadon Izumi<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, April 03, 2009 11:43 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> opensim-dev@lists.berlios.de<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Opensim-dev] Mono considered harmful<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Ya its likely Microsoft probably took it further than it
needed to go, but chances are there was just no communications between the two
companies, and this is what happens when communications break down between
companies, likely there was some other reason for Microsoft and TomTom fighting
and this was just the reason they picked to bring the hammer down.
But to me this just seems like 2 companies who had a dispute and communications
simply broke down, and Microsoft had to do what they had to do, lacking the
complete details we are all doing a bit of assuming, but in this case the
decision made was not made because of technical reasons, that we do
know. And also to say microsoft is against opensourcing in
anyway is just simply false, SuSe is virtually propped up by microsoft,
microsoft has dumped millions of dollars into SuSe and Linux development, as
well as offered many opensource portals from their website, they are very
supportive of mono, because in the end it allows microsoft products to be run in
Linux, so for microsoft to cut their linux legs off too me seems
unlikely, but you should expect that when microsoft gets on the war path,
the other party is likely in trouble. but seriously when it comes to
terms of OpenSource promotoers the only company i can think of that rivals
microsoft in thier open source initiatives would be IBM. and I
could be wrong but i thought at one point microsoft was actually tinkering with
OpenSim, but not really sure that ended up. <br>
<br>
Neb<o:p></o:p></p>
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