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Should We Fear the (Microsoft) Geeks, Bearing Gifts?

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Computerworld UK; By Glyn Moody 		Mail this story
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There's a common theme here: replacing GNU/Linux at the bottom of the open source stack, and making the applications more Windows-friendly. Microsoft seems to think - rightly, in my view - that the free software threat to its business will be blunted considerably if it can move users of enterprise open source applications onto Windows by encouraging and optimising ports to that platform.

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