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Re:Why Can't Microsoft Ship Open Source Software? by froo on Friday July 04, 2008 @06:24AM (#236104)
Umm, this is a simple answer - they had $51 billion in sales last year and is a publicly traded company.

They have to realistically do whatever is best to protect the interests of their shareholders and as long as their current business model works, I'm sure they're not really going to change it drastically.

Thats the sad reality of it all.

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Re:Why Can't Microsoft Ship Open Source Software? by raganwald on Friday July 04, 2008 @06:50AM (#236119)
they have to realistically do whatever is best to protect the interests of their shareholders

I took the article as suggesting that NIH is not in the best interests of their shareholders, as things like MSTest simply frustrate their users.

The debate about whether NIH is good or bad for MSFT is interesting.

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