“The truth will out,” as the Bard once wrote, and Microsoft just proved it again. Certainly, Redmond makes regular attempts to appear a friend to open source — the latest, in fact, was not long ago. But, just as Lady Macbeth’s imaginary “spot” can’t be washed away, nor can Microsoft keep its true sentiments about FOSS from slipping out. First, we have Tivanka Ellawala, a Microsoft CFO, warning that Android should not be considered truly “free.” Then we have Hernan Rincon, president of Microsoft Latin America, equating open source with “incompetence.”
