Thanks to peter crane
for this link.
“A Q&A session after Microsoft president Steve Ballmer’s
speech at WinHEC recently raised eyebrows when he indicated
Microsoft was thinking about the open source concept made popular
by the competitive Linux operating system.”
“The question “what does Microsoft think of Linux open
source?” was in fact submitted prior to the live Q&A, which
led many to believe Microsoft wanted to test the waters on this
issue.”