CNET News: Microsoft Learns to Live with Open Source

“Two years ago, software engineer Shaun Walker got an e-mail
from a Microsoft product manager, suggesting ways to keep Walker’s
development project from foundering.

“That led to a meeting at Microsoft’s Redmond, Wash.,
headquarters, where the software giant decided to provide Walker
with a business mentor and Internet hosting. But Walker had one
important stipulation: He insisted that his Web content management
system, built atop Microsoft’s Windows and .Net software, be free
and open source…”

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