Ballmer: Microsoft Will Buy Open-Source Companies
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| "We will do some buying of companies that are built around open-source
| products," Ballmer said during an onstage interview at the Web 2.0 Summit in
| San Francisco.
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http://www.crn.com/software/202404305
They have already snatched XenSource (by proxy), SpikeSource (IIRC), and Zend.
Recent:
Steve Ballmer: "I would love to see all open source innovation happen on top of
Windows"
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| Steve Ballmer apparently likes open source. Well, so long as it drives
| Windows revenue. And doesn't replace any. Ever. In fact, as he said at an
| event in Microsoft last week in London that he hopes to see all open-source
| innovation going to Windows, rather than Linux (more below).
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http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9793052-16.html?tag=more
Steve Ballmer on Open Source, Online and Other
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| Any plans to bring development tools to other platforms? No.
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http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2007/10/steve_ballmer_o.html?source=rss
OSI approves Microsoft licenses
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| For now though it’s all eyes on Microsoft to see what the company will do
| next, and in many ways this will be more interesting than whether or not the
| OSI approved the licenses. For reasons that were never fully explained,
| Microsoft wanted open source licenses.
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| Now that it’s got them, will it use them to release significant code to the
| community?
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http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2007/10/16/osi-approves-microsoft-licenses/
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