Microsoft cozies up to the GPL?
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| What's next? Dogs and cats marrying each other?
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| It almost sounds like a joke headline, but there it is: a top Microsoft
| executive saying complimentary things about open source.
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| It's not really all that different from what Microsoft has said before,
| but what makes it interesting is who's saying it. Bob Muglia, senior VP
| of Microsoft's server and tools business, is a big wheel in Redmond.
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| It's one thing for Bill Hilf, Microsoft's Linux and open-source guy, to
| say nice things about open source. Part of his job is being ambassador
| to strange, foreign, open-source lands. It's another when Muglia says
| the same kind of things.
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| Or, is it?
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| It's not like Muglia said anything concrete. We've always known that
| Microsoft likes some open-source code. After all, anyone who uses
| Windows's TCP/IP networking owes an unpaid debt to BSD's network
| developers.
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| So, Muglia says that Microsoft is working on finding a way to work
| with GPL code and programmers. That's nice. But, what does it mean?
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