11th March 2016  By Dawn Kawamoto

 

Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, who infamously once declared Linux a "cancer," has now had a change of heart and applauded the company's latest moves to embrace the open source platform.

 In a major reversal, former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, who in 2001 called Linux a "cancer" that attaches itself to the intellectual property of everything it touches, has commended his former company's latest move toward open source.

 

Earlier this week, when Microsoft announced its SQL Server will run on Linux, Ballmer sent an email to Microsoft's CEO Satya Nadella saying he "loved" the announcement, according to a Reuters report.

 

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