p2pnet.net News:- Open source and interoperability aren’t necessarily the same, says Microsoft boss Bill Gates in his latest anti-Linux diatribe.

In an e-mail ostensibly addressed to customers, and quoted by Techworld, "a strong commitment to interoperability" is the solution, says Gates, and, "That means letting different kinds of applications and systems do what they do best, while agreeing on a common ‘contract’ for how disparate systems can communicate to exchange data with one another."

Interoperability is sometimes confused with open-source software, says Gates in the email

"Open source is a methodology for licensing and/or developing software - that may or may not be interoperable,” Techworld has him saying. “Additionally, the open source development approach encourages the creation of many permutations of the same type of software application, which could add implementation and testing overhead to interoperability efforts," he continued, says the report, going on:

“The careful inclusion of ‘may’ or ‘could’ will almost certainly leave Gates open to attacks of spreading FUD - fear, uncertaintly and doubt - about his open-source rivals. Many of them will also be able to point that when it comes to interoperability, Microsoft has traditionally done everything in its power to keep it a family affair.

“Microsoft continues to maintain its code in a proprietary, commercial format and despite court judgements ordering to open parts of its code up, keeps tight control of it.”

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anti-Linux - Open source and interoperability not synonymous, says Gates, Techworld, February 4, 2005

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