Microsoft acknowledges that the GNU General Public License is an important license, but the company believes that it is challenging to work with. That’s the view of Sam Ramji, Microsoft’s senior director of platform strategy.
Nearly eight years have passed since Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer infamously declared Linux to be a "cancer," and that the GNU General Public License would have required Microsoft to make its entire software portfolio open source. It has since enabled GPL-based technologies through partnerships and has softened its viewpoint
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