- Be more open to learning from, working with and using OSS software that was not written inside Redmond campus. I'm sure most of these projects would love to t

- Be more open to learning from, working with and using OSS software that was not written inside Redmond campus. I'm sure most of these projects would love to treat Windows as a first-class target platform. It's just not possible that Microsoft will be able to write best-in-class of every type of software. And I don't buy the argument that it opens you to a legal minefield. Apple is arguably a bigger company than you are now, by all the metrics that count, and manages to do this just fine. I have written software under the MIT license that is part of every shipping OS X installation now. It rocks. - Licensing. Goddamn, fix it. DreamSpark/BizSpark is not the answer, it's a stalling tactic. I wouldn't use Microsoft technology for my own startup if it came to that, as I know licensing will kill me if I'm successful, and will also kill me if I'm not, once the timer runs out. Background: Used to be a Linux/Unix dev, moved to .NET in 2004, but I still get offered jobs doing iPhone or Rails based web development on a regular basis due to my OSS profile. It's getting harder to turn them down, as I'm not convinced Microsoft's roadmap is not a dead end any more.