Microsoft: We're all'mixed source' companies

  2008-10-19 02:30:02
In case you were wondering, Microsoft thinks the battle of open source vs. proprietary software is basically over."Today, but increasingly in the future, we are all going to be'mixed source'," Microsoft's top intellectual property lawyer said in a lunchtime interview on Thursday. To bolster his claim, Horacio Gutierrez notes Microsoft is releasing plenty of stuff as open source, while open-source companies like Red Hat often license commercial software alongside their open-source products."I actually think the war between proprietary and open source is a thing of the past," he said. 
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