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Microsoft Joins Linux Foundation

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Christine Hall
Nov 16, 2016

Hell has evidently frozen over. This morning at Microsoft’s Connect event in New York City, the company announced that it has joined the Linux Foundation as a top level platimum member. What’s more, the foundation’s executive director, Jim Zemlin, is greeting the company with open arms.

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