Microsoft is not a name normally associated with the open source community, much less the communitys signature gathering, but attendees at the 2005 LinuxWorld Conference & Expo today heard Bill Hilf, open source industry veteran and former IBM Linux deployment specialist, talk about his experience running Microsofts Linux/OSS Lab.
While Microsofts presence at the conference may raise some eyebrows in the open source community the last Microsoft executive to speak at the event jokingly wore a flack jacket Hilfs focus is on building bridges. Today, he led a session at the conference titled Managing Linux in a Mixed Environment ... at Microsoft? To learn more about Microsofts position on OSS and the purpose of the companys Linux/OSS Lab, PressPass spoke with Hilf, who is Microsofts director of platform technology strategy.
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