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Despite the rather surprising news that Microsoft won't have a comprehensive open source strategy until 2015, there's increasing evidence that it has at least established its shorter-term tactic: to head off the growing use of GNU/Linux. That might seem an obvious thing to do, but it's different from earlier attempts to paint *all* of open source as hopeless for enterprise use. Instead, Microsoft is adopting a “divide and conquer” approach, whereby it sends out soothing messages to open source application projects – including much billing and cooing in an attempt to encourage hackers to make their code work better on Windows – all the while putting in the boot where GNU/Linux is concerned.
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