Ballmer: "We'll Outsmart Open Source"

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday September 24, 2002 @04:18AM from the better-buildings-by-destroying-blueprints dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Micorosofts Steve Ballmer is spouting off again in this ZDNet UK article. To an audience of Most Valued Professionals in London, he says 'We'll outsmart open source.' Among other things, he also says 'Linux is a serious competitor.' We've known ever since the Halloween Documents that they have been running scared, but this looks like a prelude to a whole new round of dirty tricks. It also looks like damage control for the statements of Microsoft's Sr. VP Brian Valentines last week."

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Re:They have outsmarted us with palladium by leviramsey · 2002-09-24 04:25 · Score: 5, Informative

Since palladium will be in the cpu and bios itself, I wonder if it will even be possible to turn it off?

Considering that the Palladium standard requires that the BIOS allow Palladium to be deactivated, I would say that it's more than possible.