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Ex-Windows chief: Here's why Microsoft waged war on open source

• mycall 6y ago
  > Microsoft open-sourced the 1983 GW-BASIC interpreter last week as a historical software artifact. Walking into a Radio Shack viewing some Tandy running BASIC prompt, more fun was the grin walking out of store. Infinite loop of random ASCII always got some looks. Kids 6 years old today could do this.
• ornornor 6y ago
  > After Microsoft ported SQL Server to Linux, Ballmer said he no longer saw Linux as a cancer, but he maintains his analogy was right for the time and that going to war with open source made Microsoft a "ton of money". There you go.
  • joemazerino 6y ago
    Ballmer, acting as an executive of Microsoft, has a duty to provide a profit to Microsoft's shareholders.