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Microsoft late last week did something longtime industry watchers thought they'd never see: The company announced it has set up a Web site specifically aimed at improving communications with Linux and the rest of the open source world.
Dubbed Port 25 (http://port25.technet.com) -- a reference to the Internet port that typically carries e-mail communications traffic -- Microsoft's site is an attempt to generate discussions between the open source community and Microsoft. It is sponsored by the Microsoft Open Source Software Lab, a two-year old effort within the company directed towards improving interoperability among the two competitors' systems.