[Discussioni] [news.com]: Microsoft learns to live with open source

[Alberto Cammozzo]

Microsoft learns to live with open source
Published: July 11, 2005, 4:00 AM PDT
By Martin LaMonica
Staff Writer, CNET News.com


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Ballmer has even changed the rhetoric: "We compete with products. We don't compete with movements," he said in a recent interview.

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 With Linux widely installed among its corporate clients, Microsoft has chosen to accommodate it rather than ignore it.

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Microsoft has hired a number of programmers who have a high profile in open-source circles, including Gentoo founder Daniel Robbins, who joined the company last month under Bill Hilf to help Microsoft development teams understand open-source development. Another employee, Jim Hugunin, is working on the IronPython project to support the Python scripting language--popular among open-source Web developers--in Microsoft's .Net software.


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