How Open Source Has Influenced Windows Server 2008

willdavid writes to tell us that Sam Ramji over at Port25 has a nice succinct list of the major open source principles that have been used while developing Windows Server 2008. "Overall, we've learned and continue to learn from open source development principles. These are making their way into the mindset, development practices, and ultimately into the products we bring to market. I've focused here on 'what Microsoft has learned from Open Source' - and ironically, I've agreed to do a panel at OSBC on 3/25 with Jim Zemlin of the Linux Foundation on 'what Open Source can learn from Microsoft'. As all of the different organizations in IT continue to evolve, we'll learn from each others' best practices and make increasingly better software. As in science, this incremental improvement will move all of us forward."

I would be careful

[hax0r_this]

.. about learning anything from Microsoft. They're probably just going to sue you for it.

While they are at it.

[jameskojiro]

Maybe they will release more specs to their API so we can make our own damn Windows OS, with hookers and blackjack, forget the hookers and and backjack, forget the whole damned thing!

Re:What they can learn

[maxwell demon]

How to improve on their chair-throwing skills.

Lessons Learned

[thomas.galvin]

Open standards, choice of platform, no vendor lock-in, release-early-release-often, user-modifiable programs, ability to fork... yeah, they've learned all kinds of stuff from Open Source.

TOP of the list

[Anonymous Coward]

1. Closed source pays better,
2. gets more users,
3. looks much better on the deskop, and,
4. pays better

Sticking feathers up your butt...

[jhRisk]

...does not make you a chicken.

Tyler Durden (1999)

Re:Sticking feathers up your butt...

[imipak]

Well thanks, you just ruined my weekend.

Re:What FOSS can learn from MS?

[smoothdogg00]

You must be joking... there will never be a day when the quality of any Linux distribution is higher than the latest Windows distribution. Say what you want about Vista, its a great OS. Linux is for the "non-conformists" who want to seem smart, or for those who don't want to pay for an OS.