by Liam Tung, ZD Net
Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer no longer thinks Linux is a “malignant cancer”. With Azure moving up the food chain in Redmond, Microsoft has since 2012 softened its stance on open-source software, capped off by this week’s move to port SQL Server to Linux. Eleven years before that, shortly after taking the helm at Microsoft, Ballmer said, “Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches.” The other c-word he used for Linux was communism, accusing the Linux community of diluting Microsoft’s R&D spend by infringing on its intellectual property.
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