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Old 19th June 2008, 05:04 AM
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M$ going Open Source ;)

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Microsoft has signed a deal with Open Source Census, a project aimed at finding out what open source programs are most frequently used by companies as well as how many companies are using them, to sponsor the initiative. Open Source Census’s goal is to use the information resulted from the study to find better ways of convincing more and more companies to use open source programs in their daily activity
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More likely, they'll use the info to stage a hostile takeover attempt on those open-source projects.

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No! They wouldn't do such a thing
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