Charles Cooper: The advance billing had the audience assuming Daniel was about to enter the lions' den. What they got was more along the lines of Mister Rogers talks tech.
Brad Smith, who is Microsoft's top lawyer, went out of his way during an afternoon talk before a gathering of open-source die-hards to portray the software company as ready to turn a page in its relationship with the developer community.
"Two engineers in a room can solve a problem a lot better than 1,000 lawyers," he told a packed ballroom of open-source enthusiasts and executives here, adding that the company wanted "conversation and dialogue."
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