How Microsoft Learned to Stop Worrying and (Almost) Love Open Source | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com
http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2011/11/how-microsoft-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-almost-love-open-source
Microsoft recently gave some code to the Samba project -- one of the company's traditional open source enemies. The move is a sign that when it comes to open source, Microsoft has changed.
Samba developer resigns from Novell
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061221-8481.html
"The Microsoft patent agreement has put [Novell developers] outside the community and there is no positive aspect to that fact, and no way to make it so"
Samba creator refutes Microsoft claims in EU case | InfoWorld | News | 2006-04-28 | By Paul Meller, IDG News Service
http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/04/28/77869_HNsambaonstand_1.html?source=rss&url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/04/28/77869_HNsambaonstand_1.html
"But the software giant turned its back on the rest of the software community in the late 1990s once it had developed a server operating system it believed it could corner the market with. "