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MS To Become Open Source Friendly Post Gates

Posted by timothy on from the certainly-possible dept.

ruphus13 writes "Now that Gates has 'retired' from Microsoft, ZDNet is speculating that Microsoft will become much more Open Source friendly. From the article, 'We already see quite a different approach to dealing with OSS and OSS companies from Sam Ramji's group [which is] doing a great job in establishing dialog,' said Rafael Laguna, CEO of Open-Xchange and a former marketing exec at SUSE Linux. 'With Gates' departure, the only mammoth remaining is Ballmer. With him away in a near future, Microsoft will definitely open up. They have to.'" Microsoft could become the world's largest open source company; they've certainly made some concessions to it lately.

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  1. Re:In related news... by raving_genius · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Wouldn't that be "Atheists to become Pro-Reason post Apocalypse"?

  2. Re:Imaginary Support by pdusen · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Don't worry, you replied to Twitter; I'm sure he dug up one of his sockpuppets to mod you with.