Microsoft's annual report: A study in open-source awareness...and ignorance

Posted by Sander_Marechal on Aug 4, 2008 6:22 AM EDT
CNet News; By Matt Asay
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In reading through Microsoft's annual report, I am struck by how far the company has come in appreciating the threat that open source brings to Redmond. I'm also shocked by just how ill-informed the company continues to be with regard to open source as a business strategy. Steve Ballmer has revealed this before in his quips about "Open source won't pay our bills," but here Microsoft has managed to enshrine its ignorance in a public document.

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