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Microsoft's Biggest Threat - Google or Open Source?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the by-your-powers-combined dept.

Glyn Moody writes "Google always plays down suggestions that there's any looming clash of the titans between itself and Microsoft. Meanwhile, the search giant is pushing open source in every way it can. They're contributing directly by contributing code to projects and employing top hackers like Andrew Morton, Jeremy Allison and Guido van Rossum, and indirectly through the $60 million fees it pays Mozilla, its Summer of Code scheme and various open source summits held at its offices. Google+OSS: could this be the killer combination that finally breaks Microsoft?"

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  1. could this be the killer combination that ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    ... finally breaks Microsoft?

    sure, now that Linux had taken over the desktop.

  2. Re:Google is OSS by Revotron · · Score: 3, Funny

    Microsoft had innovation?

    Maybe Traf-O-Data, but even that's a stretch...

  3. Re:Google is OSS by FudRucker · · Score: 4, Funny

    GNUgle?

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  4. Re:Microsoft's biggest threat is Microsoft. by 7-Vodka · · Score: 2, Funny

    I actually like some of the Microsoft hardware. Their mice are great, their routers are great (the ones I have personally purchased, ie not many). In fact I wish they would just quit everything else and focus on their only good products, mice and routers.

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