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Published 2/9/2009 by syegulalp@techweb.com (Serdar Yegulalp) at InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs

Scarcely a single open source- / Linux-focused blog hasn't been abuzz (or a-Twitter) with news about a job opening at Microsoft for a " director of open source strategy ". From the outside, it looks like the first of many pre-emptive strikes against the likes of Ubuntu and the Linux-powered netbook world. But is it a sign Microsoft is desperate, or just smart? (link)

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