Microsoft LOVES open source!?

[ Thanks to Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols for this link. ]

"Microsoft claiming that it loves open source?! What next? Cats and dogs living together?!

"Seriously, in a recent Network World interview, Microsoft's General Manager of Interoperability and XML Architecture Jean Paoli said, "We [Microsoft] love open source" and that "We have worked with open source for a long time now."

"Really? But what about Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer saying "Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches""

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