Bill Hilf

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Bill Hilf is General Manager of Platform Strategy at Microsoft, and director of Microsoft's work with open-source projects. Hilf previously worked at IBM[1] where he led their Linux technical strategy.

He has had a high public profile, including a Slashdot interview[2], speeches at events such as LinuxWorld, posts on the recently launched Microsoft Open Source Software Lab blog[3] and work promoting Windows PowerShell and the Unix support in Windows Server 2003 R2.

Hilf has made a number of controversial statements with regard to Linux and the Open Source community, claiming that "The Free Software movement is dead. Linux doesn't exist in 2007. Even Linus has a job today..." [4], implying that free software is equivalent to freeware.

[edit] References

  1. ^ IBM Developerworks.
  2. ^ Slashdot interview.
  3. ^ Port 25.
  4. ^ Microsoft director out to 'debunk mythology around open source'

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