Interview With Microsoft's Open-Source Manager

[HardOCP News]

There is a brief interview with Bill Hilf, Microsoft's open-source manager, at PC World that sheds a little light on what Microsoft’s intentions are in regards to the company’s recent open-source patent claims.

The Fortune article does not correctly represent our strategy. That's what has people so inflamed. It looks like our strategy changed and we are moving in a new direction, but it hasn't. In the Novell deal, we said we had to figure out a way to solve these IP issues and we needed to figure out a way for better interoperability with open-source products. The Fortune article makes it look like we are going out on this litigation path.