Microsoft cozies up to the GPL?
What's next? Dogs and cats marrying each other?
It almost sounds like a joke headline, but there it is: a top Microsoft executive saying complimentary things about open source.
It's not really all that different from what Microsoft has said before, but what makes it interesting is who's saying it. Bob Muglia, senior VP of Microsoft's server and tools business, is a big wheel in Redmond.
It's one thing for Bill Hilf, Microsoft's Linux and open-source guy, to say nice things about open source. Part of his job is being ambassador to strange, foreign, open-source lands. It's another when Muglia says the same kind of things.
Or, is it?
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