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4th May 2007 - Link Blog

MSFT and Yahoo: two icebergs, roped together. Yahoo!’s engineering platform and culture is Open Source pretty much all the way down. Microsoft’s isn’t. I wonder how that would pan out.

Posted 4th May 2007 at 5:50 pm

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