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Microsoft has begun to realign its legal department, allowing it to work in collaboration with its engineers so that product teams can have more flexibility with open-source software. The company is evangelizing—internally—that more interoperability can be good for the bottom line. Microsoft’s Sam Ramji, senior director of platform strategy, discussed with SD Times his company’s evolution to a pragmatic viewpoint toward open source, and explained why the company is offering its support to some open-source projects that it feels advances its business and technology goals.

SD Times: Your colleague Robert Duffner [senior director of platform strategy] recently told us that product groups drive Microsoft’s participation in open-source projects. How much autonomy do those groups have to work with open source?

Sam Ramji: Open source is burgeoning at Microsoft | SD Times On The Web

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