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Fortune: Behind Microsoft’s Settlement with Sun? The Power of the Open-Source Movement

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“Once the shock of seeing Steve Ballmer and Scott McNealy
happily together on the same stage had passed, the world of tech
punditry last Friday turned to the question, What does Microsoft’s
settlement with Sun mean?

“Though many aspects of the deal remain murky, let’s speculate
anyway. Driving the peace settlement, it seems to me, is an
awareness that we are all moving from a world of centralized
proprietary technologies into one of distributed power in
computing. Sun and Microsoft are nervously seeking to position
themselves for the new reality, with which they are both profoundly
uncomfortable…”


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