Ballmer: Microsoft only with open-source interoperability, but not for open-source business

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Houston, Texas, in the United States at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2008, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer suggested that Microsoft will exchange with open-source products, but it will not carry out open-source business. In Ballmer, the Microsoft can not be in the open-source at the same time achieving business goals.

"Fortune" magazine, Georg Fu Keer (Geoff Colvin) asked about the Microsoft and open-source relationship. Ballmer said: "First of all, our products will open source» will not. We are indeed in some exceptional circumstances to provide open-source code, but open source means free, free of charge and does not match our guiding spirit. "

However, Ballmer said that Microsoft is willing to at least with the open-source products and open source programmers to exchange. Ballmer said: "we will work with Linux or other open-source products to achieve interoperability« Yes, we will. We will encourage the willingness to engage in open-source research and development of people working on the Windows platform «Yes, the world's best PHP systems running on Windows systems, rather than running on Linux, which we are very proud, and we therefore encourage the open-source software programmers in the Windows platform on the open-source innovation, but we are still the fundamental business model Is a commercial software, advertising, business licensing, and so on. "