Quick Mention: Microsoft President Quits

Dr. Roy Schestowitz

2011-01-10 18:32:57 UTC
Modified: 2011-01-10 18:32:57 UTC

Summary: Muglia is out

GREAT day for software freedom. Muglia is out. More details soon... ⬆

"There is a substantive effort in open source to bring such an implementation of .Net to market, known as Mono and being driven by Novell, and one of the attributes of the agreement we made with Novell is that the intellectual property associated with that is available to Novell customers."

--Bob Muglia, Microsoft President

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Quick Mention: Microsoft President Quits

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