Putrajaya: In muted tones, Microsoft’s chairman warned governments and companies that open source software is not the way to go if they are in the business of creating jobs and intellectual property. Bill Gates was on the Malaysian leg of a whirlwind Asian tour, which included a speech on his vision of “seamless computing”, when he voiced his concerns over the growing goodwill towards open source, especially in Asia. It is one of the top two challenges facing Microsoft today, the other being software piracy, which is making governments lose tax revenue, Gates outlined on Jun 29 at a roundtable...