Silicon.com: "Linux is Great" Says Microsoft

"Microsoft has admitted it has a soft spot for Linux--but it thinks open source users don't share the same enthusiasm.

"The Microsoft attitude towards the competition du jour has taken a turn towards the distinctly tolerant and speaking at the Microsoft IT Forum in Copenhagen, Bradley Tipp, the software company's UK national systems engineer, said: 'We have nothing against open source, from Microsoft's point of view, it's not a religious thing, it's not them versus us… there are a lot of things we have learnt and there are a lot of things we should learn from open source...'"

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