Nov 17, 2016
Microsoft partners with old rival Linux Foundation
Microsoft and Linux have not always seen to eye to eye. In 2001, then Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer said in a widely-reported newspaper interview: "Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches." "As the tech blog ZDNet noted:"It's only on the desktop that Microsoft is still omnipresent. "Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation, said:"Microsoft has grown and matured in its use of and contributions to open-source technology. "Membership is an important step for Microsoft, but also for the open-source community at large, which stands to benefit from the company's expanding range of contributions."
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