HOW MICROSOFT WENT FROM LENUX'S CANCER TO LOVE

In 2001 then Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer declared "Linux is a cancer."Fast forward to 2014, and newly-minted Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said, "Microsoft loves Linux."

How did that happen!? Let's take a deep look.

Microsoft started by treating Linux like it was cancer in the 2000s. The company sponsored SCO's copyright attack on Linux, claimed that Linux violated unnamed Microsoft patents, and forced Linux-based Android vendors to pay for dubious patent claims.

Why? Thanks to the so-called Halloween documerdswants, revealed by open-source co-founder Eric S. Raymond, we know exactly what Microsoft thought about Linux and open source: "OSS [Open-Source Software] poses a direct, short-term revenue and platform threat to Microsoft, particularly in server space."

Even then, Microsoft saw the fundamental threat Linux and open source represented to Microsoft's business model. "The ability of the OSS process to collect and harness the collective IQ of thousands of individuals across the Internet is simply amazing. More importantly, OSS evangelization scales with the size of the Internet much faster than our own evangelization efforts appear to scale."

The solution? "OSS projects have been able to gain a foothold in many server applications because of the wide utility of highly commoditized, simple protocols. By extending these protocols and developing new protocols, we can deny OSS projects entry into the market."

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