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Many news outlets are hyping Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie's comments on open source Thursday at the Most Valuable Professional Summit in Seattle. As I thought was true when Senior Vice President, Corporate Secretary and General Counsel Brad Smith wooed the open source community at OSBC in San Francisco, much of this looks to be PR due to the company's proposed acquisition of Yahoo. That looks like why the top executives--Ballmer, Ozzie, Smith--keep whispering sweet nothings about open source. Still, ever since his days at Lotus and Groove Networks, Ozzie has really known software, and almost always has something interesting to say. He did on Thursday.