"For years, it’s been easy to praise Google for being a friend to open source, while vilifying Microsoft for keeping its distance from free software. But as a web service, Google was in a very different position from Microsoft, a company that reached its heights selling shrink-wrapped boxes of code. Now, Microsoft is also a web company. It’s becoming more like Google — in more ways than one."
Meet Bill Gates, the Man Who Changed Open Source Software | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com
"There is no greater power in the world than an idea whose time has come"
Meet Bill Gates, the Man Who Changed Open Source Software | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com
"Meet Bill Gates, the Man Who Changed Open Source Software"
Meet Bill Gates, the Man Who Changed Open Source Software | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com
"With Azure, we make money from compute and storage and bandwidth"
Meet Bill Gates, the Man Who Changed Open Source Software | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com
"In the past, businesses paid companies like Microsoft for software and loaded it on their own servers. Now, businesses pay to use online services instead. In offering open source software atop Azure, there’s a clear way for Microsoft to actually make money."
Meet Bill Gates, the Man Who Changed Open Source Software | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com
"For Ramji — who would spend more than three and a half years as the company’s chief open source strategist — the moment Bill Gates stood up was the moment Microsoft turned the corner on its approach to free software. “He was given little to no credit by the open source community — or anyone in the tech industry — for really understanding open source and why it can be important, how it can be a competitive advantage, and why when your competitors start to use it, you have to too. He really got it, and in that moment, he taught us all."
Meet Bill Gates, the Man Who Changed Open Source Software | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com
"Don’t read my book at the exclusion of Walter Isaacson’s biography about Steve Jobs,” said Lashinsky, who had nothing but praise for the book now known simply as the “Jobs biography.” But he was quick to note that it was only the picture Jobs and Apple wanted readers to see."
Adam Lashinsky on peeling back Apple’s skin - Ideas@Innovations - The Washington Post
