Microsoft joins Linux 15 yrs after ex-CEO called it ‘cancer’
Microsoft on Thursday announced joining non-profit technology trade association Linux Foundation as a high-paying member. In a 2001 interview, Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said, "Linux is cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches." Under Satya Nadella, Microsoft has contributed to Linux open source projects like OpenDaylight and R Consortium.