In a remarkable pot-calling-the-kettle-black incident, Microsoft has attacked Asian plans to build an open-source operating system as anti-competitive. In response to the multi-million-pound development and promotion deal signed by the Japanese, Chinese and South Korean governments, Microsoft's director of government affairs in Asia, Tom Robertson, told Reuters: "We'd like to see the market decide who the winners are in the software industry. Governments should not be in the position to decide who the winners are."
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