Analysts and insiders—including Linus Torvalds—say they think that Microsoft’s move to start a dialogue with the open-source community shows that the company is recognizing that open source has real, lasting value.
After a series of friendly moves towards open-source developers, Microsoft Corp. has talked with Michael Tiemann, president of the Open Source Initiative and vice president of open-source affairs at Linux vendor Red Hat Inc., about meeting with him to “begin a productive conversation” between proponents of open source and Microsoft.
Link: eWeek
