The world has gone mad! First, IBM sold it PC business. Then Apple announced it's switching to Intel chips. Now, VMWare (http://www.vmware.com/communitysource/) and Micro$oft (http://www.microsoft.com/resources/sharedsource/default.mspx) are starting their own open source initiatives. Is this really happening??? Technically though they can't be called open source. While these projects release their source code to the public, they do so using restrictive licenses. Same proprietary model for luring open source enthusiast back to proprietary software, it seems.
Incidentally, a sizeable number of European local government bodies (http://www.theregister.com/2005/10/21/opensource_government/) are using open source software. M$ must be feeling the dent on their sales.
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