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• The Microsoft middle ground | A Developer’s View | ZDNet.com (August 7th, 2008 Posted by John Carroll @ 9:34 am)

Those benefits, as I’ve explained before, relate to how profit incentives turn the attention of developers towards the interests of other people (in this case, the non-technical). A corporate, profit-based relationship also creates a unique source of information regarding user needs, as well as a certain self interest-derived tunnel vision with respect to those needs.

オープン・ソースの弱点を補うことのできる立場にいるのがマイクロソフトだ、という見解。つまり、収益の土台がしっかりした開発者が外にいればマイクロソフトは強みを生かせる。