Microsoft’s Biggest Purchase Uses Open Source
May 29, 2007 by Jayvee Fernandez
Filed under Computers
As it spreads FUD against open source, Microsoft faces the quagmire of integrating a six billion dollar purchase that uses open source.
I don’t know if these guys are hypocrites, or just completely uncoordinated. Either way, their largest purchase to date uses something they supposedly oppose. Nice impulse-buy reaction to Google, guys.
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