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Why Microsoft cozied up to open source at OSCON

08-04-2008 11:00 AM
Last month at O'Reilly's Open Source Convention (OSCON), it seemed like Microsoft was everywhere you looked, avouching its interest in open source. Thanks to the company's history -- including some very recent history -- a great many in the open source community viewed the company's presence with mistrust, suspicious of Redmond's motives and apprehensive of what would follow. Surely Microsoft must want something, so what is it?

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gnome-open

gnome-open(1)							   User Commands						     gnome-open(1)

NAME

       gnome-open - open a file using the appropriate application

SYNOPSIS

       gnome-open [gnome-std-options] URL

DESCRIPTION

       gnome-open opens a file from the command line by launching the appropriate application that is associated with the file mime type.

OPTIONS

       The following options are supported:

       gnome-std-options       Standard options available for use with most GNOME applications.  See gnome-std-options(5) for more information.

OPERANDS

       The following operands are supported:

       URL	       Specifies the name of the URL to open.

EXAMPLES

       Example 1: Opening a Text File in the Home Directory

       example% gnome-open README.txt

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

       See environ(5) for descriptions of the following environment variables: NLSPATH.

EXIT STATUS

       The exit value 0 is returned regardless of success or failure.

FILES

       The following files are used by this application:

       /usr/bin/gnome-open     Executable to open a file using the appropriate application

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWgnome-libs		   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface stability	     |Volatile			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       Latest version of the GNOME Desktop User Guide for your platform.

       attributes(5), environ(5), gnome-std-options(5)

NOTES

       Written by Stephen Browne, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2004.

SunOS 5.11							    6 Sep 2004							     gnome-open(1)

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