My Talk at Microsoft
>Publicly take back Microsoft's attacks on copyleft made in the 2000s. Ballmer called the GPL a "cancer". Allchin called it "un-American".<p>(from the "Suggestions I gave to Microsoft" section)<p>This is something I agree with. I don't think that Microsoft are likely to apologise for EEE [1] as that is likely just considered 'business' and part of the zeitgeist; neither do I think that Microsoft necessarily needs to endorse or support GPL as they are definitely unlikely to be using it for any products for the foreseeable.<p>They should, however, be a bit more repentant about starting a McCarthy-esque red scare against all things open source. I don't think those things were appropriate at the time and they really should at the very least be acknowledged as part of the "Microsoft heart Linux" initiative.<p>Part of me, though, thinks that Microsoft's recent adventures in Linux have been more 'Black Friday' than 'Good Friday'.<p>[1] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace%2C_extend%2C_and_extinguish" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace%2C_extend%2C_and_extin...</a>