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[technomancy]

This has very little to do with open source and everything to do with Free Software. I get that you can normally conflate the two, but in this case the distinction is crucial.

[uygtfrgtyjuhk → technomancy]

MSFT is totally happy to use BSD licensed code in it's own products - but GPL code might compete with it's products.

[jarin → uygtfrgtyjuhk]

If GPL code was going to compete with Microsoft's products, it would be competing with Microsoft's products already.

In some cases it is (particularly in the infrastructure department), but in many cases it is not in any significant way.

[uygtfrgtyjuhk → jarin]

Linux, Samba, OpenOffice etc not competing with MSFT?

They claimed they were in their market statements