* Microsoft menaced by Open Source
posted by David Adams on Tue 5th Aug 2008 21:20 UTC, submitted by JCooper
IconMicrosoft . . . complained in its annual report that it was facing increasing pressure from open source companies. It claims they are stealing its ideas and benefiting from its intellectual property. "A number of commercial firms compete with us using an open source business model by modifying and then distributing open source software to end users at nominal cost and earning revenue on complementary services and products." Also see analysis at Microsoft Watch.
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