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Re:Microsoft is Now a Platinum Sponsor of the Apache Foundation by deepster on Saturday July 26, 2008 @04:26AM (#257455)
While MSFT might wage war against Open Source, they recognize it's a deep pool of talent to recruit from.

Now if they could hire away the key Apache developers, they would in a heartbeat. They did it to Borland in the 90's. That's why Ballmer was tossing around chairs, b/c he saw Google using the very same strategy against him.

At the end of the day Money talks!

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Re:Microsoft is Now a Platinum Sponsor of the Apache Foundation by gruseom on Saturday July 26, 2008 @10:39AM (#257555)
They did it to Borland in the 90's.

Indeed, and with huge consequences. Borland withered up and died (or the statistical equivalent), and MS got Heijlsberg who went on to make some of the few things they have that don't suck.

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