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The New Zealand Herald: Microsoft Puts the Boot into Open Source

“Microsoft seized the moment at an open-source conference for
state-sector IT staff to make an all-out assault on its competitor,
attacking ‘weaknesses’ in the way open-source software is
created.

“Competitive strategy manager Brett Roberts told the Government
information systems managers’ forum in Wellington yesterday that
despite the common perception, the open-source community and
Microsoft were not at loggerheads.

“Proprietary software vendors were at one end of a continuum and
non-commercial open-source developers at the other, he said…”


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