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Actually, he said yes

Actually, he said yes

Posted Sep 1, 2008 22:44 UTC (Mon) by kbengston (subscriber, #6153)
Parent article: Microsoft's Man in Open Source: Sam Ramji on Redmond's Linux Strategy (Datamation)

The last sentence of the quote imagines Microsoft technologies and open source technologies as separate but interoperating. I'd say Microsoft intends to make a profit by putting its resources into Microsoft technologies, for which it can charge a fee. Any open source it produces will be incidental to its main aim because of that business model.

So is it true that Microsoft will never actually produce open source software? When you think about the answer, Mr Ramji is saying "Yes".


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