"My wife tells me I'm not the brightest bulb in the marquee for going to open source conferences as the Microsoft guy," said Jason Matusow, shared source initiative manager at Microsoft Corp. "Linux today is primarily growing because of the (support) of very large corporations," he said, citing not only pure-play Linux companies like Red Hat, but also the likes of IBM and Hewlett-Packard. One of the only things that three software professionals could agree on at a recent gathering in Toronto was that open source and proprietary software will have to learn to coexist.
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