Bloggers and tech journalists are still trading barbs over Chris DiBona’s reaction to Microsoft’s OSI submission, it seems. In his Open Source Guy blog, Guy Snir points to a comment piece in The Register in which Ashlee Vance argues that it’s “near impossible not to take Microsoft’s side here.” Google is a bigger threat to open source than Microsoft is, in his view.

Snir doesn’t agree:

I find it hard to accept the claim that if Microsoft plays the game by the rules, we should not criticize and/or make cynical remarks (which I enjoy…).

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