[ Thanks to An Anonymous Reader for
this link. ]
“Acknowledging the relationship between Microsoft and
the open source community has been contentious, a Microsoft
official Thursday nonetheless emphasized the company’s embrace of
the open source paradigm, even if it was not necessarily for
altruistic purposes.“The presentation by Microsoft’s Stuart McKee, who holds the
title of national technology officer for the United States,
continued a pattern in recent years that has seen Microsoft
publicly embracing the open source movement and even funding
it.”