Microsoft and FOSS: Uneasy Bedfellows

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"The invitation came from a Microsoft web platform architect evangelist, Jorke Odolphi, whom I met at the Australian national Linux conference earlier this year and arrived just a couple of days before the event. I did post details to the two local Linux user groups but only one person attended from either group.

"As I expected, the talk was mostly about getting open source applications to work well on Windows. This is something that the company loves - such apps running better on Windows than they do on other operating systems as Windows is still the main cash cow in Redmond."

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