Microsoft LOVES open source!?

Written By
SJV
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
Aug 25, 2010

[ Thanks to Steven J.
Vaughan-Nichols
for this link. ]

“Microsoft claiming that it loves open source?! What
next? Cats and dogs living together?!

“Seriously, in a recent Network World interview, Microsoft’s
General Manager of Interoperability and XML Architecture Jean Paoli
said, “We [Microsoft] love open source” and that “We have worked
with open source for a long time now.”

“Really? But what about Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer saying
“Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property
sense to everything it touches””

Complete
Story

SJV

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

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