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Competing With 'Free' - Or, Rather, 'Agile'
Published 10/20/2008 by nospam@cmp.com (Serdar Yegulalp) at InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs
Over at the Monday Note blog, former Apple/Be maven Jean-Louis Gassée poses a rhetorical question to Microsoft: How do you compete with free? But it's not just "free" that Microsoft's competing with here, and it's not "open" either. It's "agile".
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