osOpinion: Microsoft Embraces Linux! (Sort Of)

It’s one of the strangest pieces of news to come from Microsoft
in quite a while. In early April, it was quietly announced that
Microsoft had chosen InterVideo to port its Windows Media
technology to Linux.

“Whoa, stop the train. Microsoft porting to Linux…?

“These guys are passionate. Open source is a ‘cancer’ and ‘a
threat to the American Way.’ With feelings like these, I wouldn’t
be surprised if they have a Mexican pinata of Linus Torvalds in
their office that they take turns bashing after lunch. I can hear
them now: ‘Take that, you corrupter of youth! Bad, Linus,
bad…!'”

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