Why Microsoft cozied up to open source at OSCON

Courtesy Digg Linux/Unix upcoming  Mon, 08/04/2008 - 15:34

Last month at O'Reilly's Open Source Convention (OSCON), it seemed like Microsoft was everywhere you looked, avouching its interest in open source.

Thanks to the company's history -- including some very recent history -- a great many in the open source community viewed the company's presence with mistrust, suspicious of Redmond's motives and appreh


 

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