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  Microsoft's changing tune on Linux
Time: 09:32 EST/14:32 GMT | News Source: CNET | Posted By: Robert Stein

When Linux first appeared on Microsoft's radar a few years ago, senior company executives regularly disparaged the upstart operating system as everything from being a "cancer" to "Pac-Man-like." And that was when they were in a kind mood. But Microsoft's rhetorical offensive boomeranged, drawing even more attention to the open-source movement--exemplified by the Linux operating system and the General Public License (GPL) that governs it.

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