We were wrong about open source: Microsoft

After having battled open source and Linu for years while at the height of its “desktop domination”, Microsoft has finally said that they were wrong about open source. Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has ‘famously’ branded Linux, back in 2001, “a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches”.

Microsoft president Brad Smith now believes that they were wrong about open source.

“Microsoft was on the wrong side of history when open source exploded at the beginning of the century, and I can say that about me personally,” said Smith in a recent MIT event. Smith has worked at Microsoft for more than 25 years and was “one of the company’s senior lawyers during its battles with open-source software”.