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still, I will say that it is a victory for open source community!

Microsoft has been doing this for some time. Outsourcing and linking to services that people are using. Windows Live is integrated into a LOT of services. It's actually pretty nice. They plug into these systems that already exist, and leverage them for their own customers.

It's really smart.

I agree it's smart.

But that doesn't change the fact this platform is, from top to bottom, everything Microsoft has been criticizing and sabotaging for the past decade: GPL, Linux, MySQL...

It's like Google deciding to do search through Bing...

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