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| This is Microsoft's chance |
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| Publication: | ZDNet | Date: | Jul 16 2001 |
Microsoft has been gifted with a rare opportunity to show that it's learned something from its long antitrust battle. I'm not talking about the breakup reprieve issued recently by the U.S. Court of Appeals. I'm talking about last week's news that two key players in the open-source software movement -- the Free Software Foundation and Ximian Inc. -- plan to develop Windows-compatible .Net development tools for open-source platforms including Linux.
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