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Microsoft's Biggest Threat - Google or Open Source?
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?"
Why would anyone want to?
No, seriously. Don't get me wrong--I'm a Linux fan. I use Ubuntu on my home server, Debian on one box, Windows on another. But I don't understand why anyone would want to break Microsoft--after all, they make a good product for the market they intend to reach.
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