Microsoft and Open Source

"(Supporters of the GPL) ask software developers to give away for free the very thing they create that is of greatest value, in the hope that, somehow, they'll make money selling something else," -- Mundie

Brad Kuhn, vice president of the Free Software Foundation, the group behind the General Public License, said Microsoft was trying to confuse the difference between commercial software and proprietary software controlled by one company. Microsoft pays lip service to the open source philosophy in order to tap the energies of a wide network of programmers but uses those efforts to create software that it alone owns and controls.