Another possibility, suggested Jason Bloomberg, senior analyst at Web services and SOA (service-oriented architecture) research house ZapThink, is that Microsoft is simply trying to get to know the open-source world better for its own purposes.

“I will hazard one response: in the words of Sun Tzu, ‘Know your enemy as you know yourself and you can fight a hundred battles with no danger of defeat,’” Bloomberg said.

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