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July 29, 2011 03:05 am
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/ZW8qQcImI3U/Microsoft-Dilutes-Open-Source-Coins-Open-Surface
Microsoft Dilutes Open Source, Coins 'Open Surface'
sfcrazy writes "Now, Microsoft is coining yet another term to further confuse users — 'Open Surface.' Senior Director for Open Source Communities at Microsoft, Gianugo Rabellino, said at Oscon 2011 that customers don't care about the underlying platform as long as the APIs, protocols and standards for the cloud are open. That's when he threw the term 'open surface.'" This seems to have more than a grain of truth to it — after all, programmers have been creating open-source software with closed-source programming languages for many years, and I'm certainly more impressed by Google's willingness to let me export my data than I am turned off by the fact that they use a mix of open and closed source software to run the Google circus. 
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