"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