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Microsoft Claims 'We Love Open Source'
jbrodkin writes "Everyone in the Linux world remembers Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's famous comment in 2001 that Linux is a 'cancer' that threatened Microsoft's intellectual property. While Microsoft hasn't formally rescinded its declaration that Linux violates its patents, at least one Microsoft executive admits that the company's earlier battle stance was a mistake. Microsoft wants the world to understand, whatever its issues with Linux, it no longer has any gripe toward open source."
The problem is, you don't realize that there isn't anything in OSS that really competes with MS when it comes to home users.
You may shoehorn your friends and family into running Linux, but you didnt' really do them a favor and just because they don't bitch at you doesn't mean they like it.
Microsoft likes OSS software because it sets the bar incredible low. Its not an insult, its just reality. Most people try something OSS, get tired of having to look all over the Internet just to get it to START working, let alone fix some annoying attribute of it and go back to MS because as much as it suck, it sucks less than the alternatives.
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