Microsoft has admitted it used to be mistaken about open supply, after the corporate battled it and Linux for years at the top of its computer domination. Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer famously branded Linux “a most cancers that attaches itself in an intellectual property feel to the whole lot it touches” back in 2001. Microsoft president Brad Smith now believes the corporate used to be unsuitable approximately open source. “Microsoft was on the flawed side of historical past while open source exploded on the starting of the century, and