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Story: Open-source fight staged on 'wrong battleground'

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Sometimes it is not "Good To Talk".

One would preferr if Di Maio would speak about how Open Source application developers will be guaranteed protectection from the monopolistic practices of a company that is known to implement strategies that, on a software level, guarantee its application dominance on its own platforms -lockin + lockout.

If Di Maio had to spend years in small rooms writing code for an application, knowing that the application could suddenly stop communicating with the Operating System, will he be so quick to speak about the misplaced focus of Open Source Advocates?

In addition, it would be best if he told us, how much freedom, in relation to the various Open Source Licences that exist, MIcrosoft platforms guarantee. Can I plant GPL roots in to Microsoft's deliveries, cutting through the Operating System layers as I do so?

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