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At the recent Open Source Virtual Conference, Microsoft open source experts described how the company has changed its position on open source software development over the past two decades.

John Gossman, a Distinguished Engineer on the Microsoft Azure Team, kicked off the Sept. 13 online conference with a keynote talk in which he recounted Microsoft's history with open source software. Much has changed since former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer called Linux "a cancer" back in 2001, according to Gossman, who described that point of view as a "fundamental misunderstanding of open source."... Continue reading.

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