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Microsoft: More Open, More Barriers

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Stephen O'Grady
Mar 28, 2008

“In my presentation to an audience of open source ISVs
contemplating relationships with Microsoft–the long time standards
bearer for proprietary software–I likened the relationship between
the firm and the movement to the Odd Couple. Though I declined to
cast the respective parties.

“After the past few days at NXT and OSBC, if anything, I’m more
aligned with that viewpoint than I was when I put the deck
together…”


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