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Robert Scoble vs. Open Source Community...

I've just spent my hour of relax this morning (rain and rain for the entire week, now the sun seems to appear in the sky so I think I'll go out for shopping ) reading an interesting post on Robert Scoble's Blog about Longhorn and Open Source Community (I'm a big fan of Robert's Blog, one of the best of the net).

Scoble (the MS Longhorn Evangelist) starts his post saying an important thing: MS is really interested in interoperability with other platforms. He says that he's also a Linux/RedHat user, that he use Firefox with his Longhorn machine and, in response to the Mozilla community, he said an important message: "you guys should talk with us".

He hopes in a possible interoperability and personally I hope too...

But, why I'm writing this post? Not only to signal the important message launched by Robert, but to signal the responses that comes from the Open Source Community to Robert (you can read all these responses on the Robert's Blog). A little resume of the contents? Attacks to Microsoft and sometimes to Roberts, expressed with lot of arrogance.

Always the same thing? Why this? Why the Open Source Community (Ok, fortunately not all the people, but a lot of them...) seems never want to have a constructive discussion and interaction with the MS world? Instead of talking with Robert about possible interactions, they attack MS.

I think interaction is a key for future, for MS and for the Open Source Community. I like the Open Source philosophy, but I don't like people that talks with the brain "off". Attacks are not constructive!!

Ok, this is only a little vent... thanks to Robert for his post and for his thinking. You're right!!

Now my relax time is coming...