“Hewlett Packard has issued a statement calling a two-year-old
internal memo that has been circulating on the Internet and raises
fears that Microsoft would mount a litigation campaign to ‘shut
down open-source software’ now outdated and largely
irrelevant…“In the document, Gary Campbell, who at the time was HP’s vice
president of strategic architecture, cautioned several fellow
executives that ‘Microsoft is going to use the legal system to shut
down open source Latest News about open source software…’
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