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Story: Firefox welcomes Microsoft's offer of help

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Hopefully the EU is listening. It looks like that the current Vista documentation (still) requires such amounts of additional ear whispering (or amounts of budget plenty of small budgeted programmers don't have access to; note, imagine if they did) that Microsoft found a need to invite an Open Source team over.

Question is why. Perhaps there's indeed (still) a need for additional ear whispering (please don't sign anything legal, guys, since the devil is usually in the details only to be found out about later on) to make something usefull out of the documentation. Or only the people they want to are allowed to be able to afford it (have access to it). Well, no matter how well written documentation is, that's still restricted (or limited, or controlled) access in my book. Might as well have not written the documentation then for those who are left out.

So yes, the first step in colloboration is of course starting mutual communications. But given plenty of history lessons I would proceed ahead carefully and cautionally. And keep in mind that there are legal battles being fought.

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