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Microsoft Tries Soft Sell To Beat Open Source: Page 3 of 3

CEO Steve Ballmer praised open source last week, and the company released software under an open source license.
April 12, 2004

A year ago, a retiring high-level Microsoft developer criticized the company for failing to learn from the open source community. David Stutz posted an open letter to the Internet, saying Microsoft needs to adopt the best practices of open source while remaining proprietary software company.

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