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  Microsoft changes tune on Linux
Time: 08:58 EST/13:58 GMT | News Source: ZDNet | Posted By: Byron Hinson

Microsoft appears to be changing its tactics in its ongoing spat with the Linux and open-source world by taking a booth at this August's LinuxWorld Expo for the first time. The Windows giant has never ignored the Linux show, often sending executives along to scope out the terrain and pitch Microsoft's point of view, but it has never taken the step of renting a booth. Senior executives, including chairman Bill Gates, have long preferred a more caustic form of engagement with open source and its underlying philosophy, calling it a "cancer" and arguing that "Free Software" goes against everything that capitalism stands for.

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