Microsoft and Open Source: Friends or foes?
ENT News | at | by Mike
Whether it involves choice or price, freedom isn't free.
This is especially true in the realm of computer software licensing, where the question isn't if one has to pay for program use and development but rather how, to whom and when.
And nowhere is this more apparent than in the case of Microsoft's ongoing interoperability efforts as they relate to Linux platforms and the debate -- open source vs. proprietary software -- those endeavors have unleashed.