Thought this might be an interesting post from my personal blog.

This post by John Lam, highlights the change of tide at Microsoft. The company is actively trying to court opensource, notable measures in this direction are:

• See the code – Opensourcing .NET framework
• Resources for interoperating – The Opensource interoperability lab
• Support opensource – The Dynamic Languages Runtime

Well, you might argue that these are tactical moves and not a strategy. I let that be dictated by time and persuasion ….