Microsoft: More Open, More Barriers

"In my presentation to an audience of open source ISVs contemplating relationships with Microsoft--the long time standards bearer for proprietary software--I likened the relationship between the firm and the movement to the Odd Couple. Though I declined to cast the respective parties.

"After the past few days at NXT and OSBC, if anything, I'm more aligned with that viewpoint than I was when I put the deck together..."

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