Ballmer: We'll Look at Open Source, But We Won't Touch

Jul 11, 2008, 15:00 (7 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Matt Asay)

"Steve Ballmer is at least willing to talk with the open-source crowd now, as his comments at Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2008 demonstrate. He's just not willing to actually engage in open source as an appreciable part of his company's business. Fair enough.

"Ballmer lacks the imagination to conceive of a world where Microsoft could open-source code and still make a lot of money (He's apparently not heard of 'Google'...)"

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