Microsoft's support for open standards and open source software has not convinced everyone. Add your own thoughts on this? (16 December 2008)
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Microsoft is responding to Free and Open Source software only because it is a challenge to its commercial model. I've written a longer item about this, it is linked to from my consultancy blog. The key point is that just because it has help a near monopoly position for a decade, that does not mean it will continue.