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Discussion on: what are your thoughts on Microsoft going opensource?

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Ben Sinclair

Why shouldn't we play a cautious "wait and see" approach?

Because Microsoft has been incredibly damaging in the past, and many of their efforts focused on official policies (i.e. not just speculation or paranoia on the part of the media) like "embrace, extend, extinguish" where they push the image of themselves being nice until it's too late to stop them.

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Rubin

I agree with that