OK, there was a time when port 25 was a nice port, free to run the SMTP protocol we all use from time to time when sending emails. Now MS has opened a blog called port 25 and tainted it forever! Never will I look at port 25 the same way lol. Enough with the silliness, what is MS "port 25" blog? Well according to the website it's "Communications from the open source software lab @ Microsoft". Don't worry you did read that last sentence correctly and yet it did have MS and Open Source in it. Some of you may not know but MS has an open source lab, only no one knows it's purpose. One can only assume that they sit there looking over Linux source and trying to figure out what parts they can "borrow" to make their OS work properly .

Anyway back on track, the point of this blog is supposedly to create a channel for communication between the MS OS lab and the FOSS (Free and Open Source) community. Now this would have been funny if I had posted it on April 1st but sadly it's true! MS the anti-FOSS company renowned for underhand tactics want to communicate with the FOSS community. After you have stopped laughing please read the next paragraph.

The main purpose of this post apart from enlightening you about MS's port 25 was to point you in the direction of this article: http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/58360/index.html who's writer sums up the feeling and attitude the FOSS will adopt towards "port 25".



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