TalkingTech
The view from the top of IT with TechWorld Editor Rohan Pearce
Despite a rocky historical relationship with the open-source community, Microsoft's recent decision to create a specialised Open Technologies spinoff is the latest phase of its recent rapprochement with the open world - as well as a canny defensive measure.
By Jon Gold | 18 April, 2012 07:33
The news that Microsoft's new Open Technologies unit would be spun off from the company and dedicated to advancing its interests in the open-source market drew a mostly positive response from Red Hat this morning.
By Jon Gold | 17 April, 2012 22:35
Everyone in the Linux world remembers Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's famous comment that Linux is a "cancer" that threatened Microsoft's intellectual property.
By Jon Brodkin | 24 August, 2010 04:22
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