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The Inquirer: Never Show Source Code, Senior Microsoft Man Says

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“A senior VP at Microsoft has told an e-commerce conference in
Brazil that his firm thinks open source is destroying the software
industry.

“Craig Mundie, senior VP at Microsoft, told the conference in
São Paulo yesterday, the secret to success in software is
‘never show the source.’

“He said that the FSF [Free Software Foundation] wanted to
destroy a business model in which industry standard software had
benefited everyone for a long time…”

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