Maybe Microsoft doesn’t really hate opensource after all, they just sort of dislike it. ZD-Net newswire recently received this in their email box.

“If we wanted to go down that road we could have done that three years ago,” said a Microsoft spokesperson. “Rather than litigate, Microsoft has spent the last three years building an intellectual property bridge that works for all parties–including open source–and the customer response has been tremendously positive. Our focus is on continuing to build bridges.”

This does seem to run contrary to their previous statements, but corporate flip-flopping isn’t anything new.

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