"Now that Gates has 'retired' from Microsoft, ZDNet is speculating that Microsoft will become much more Open Source friendly. From the article, "We already see quite a different approach to dealing with OSS and OSS companies from Sam Ramji's group [which is] doing a great job in establishing dialog," said Rafael Laguna, CEO of Open-Xchange and a former marketing exec at SUSE Linux. "With Gates' departure, the only mammoth remaining is Ballmer. With him away in a near future, Microsoft will definitely open up. They have to."" "For much of Microsoft's history, its primary strategic initiative has been Windows everywhere. Bill Gates was the primary architect of this and it has served the company well in reaching the $50 billion revenue mark. To get from $50 to $100 billion, however, they will clearly need to embrace the non-Windows world," said Barry Crist, CEO, Likewise Software. "I suspect this will be easier for Microsoft to accomplish without Gates. We see substantive signs of this happening already.""
http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=2601
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