“Microsoft has admitted it has a soft spot for Linux–but it
thinks open source users don’t share the same enthusiasm.“The Microsoft attitude towards the competition du jour has
taken a turn towards the distinctly tolerant and speaking at the
Microsoft IT Forum in Copenhagen, Bradley Tipp, the software
company’s UK national systems engineer, said: ‘We have nothing
against open source, from Microsoft’s point of view, it’s not a
religious thing, it’s not them versus us… there are a lot of
things we have learnt and there are a lot of things we should learn
from open source…'”