Microsoft's Open-Source Strategy: A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words | Linux Today

Microsoft’s Open-Source Strategy: A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words

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MJF
Mary Jo Foley
Feb 1, 2008

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“Does Microsoft have an open-source strategy–beyond finding new
ways to thwart Linux and other non-proprietary wares?

“Sam Ramji, Microsoft’s Director of Platform Technology Strategy
and the company’s Open Source Software Lab, says it does. And it’s
a lot less touchy-feely than this definition, which is on the
Microsoft Open Source Web site: ‘The Microsoft open source strategy
is focused on helping customers and partners be successful in
today’s heterogeneous technology world…'”

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MJF

Mary Jo Foley

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