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Ballmer on Linux

Posted by michael on from the microsoft-veterans-for-truth dept.

theodp writes "'In the Linux world, nobody stands behind patent claims,' warned Steve Ballmer, saying that Microsoft customers would be protected from the $550 million Eolas patent infringement judgment. 'I'm not trying to spread fear, uncertainty and doubt,' said the CEO of the company who earlier cried wolf about breaking IE in the wake of the Eolas judgment, prompting the W3C to go to bat for the software giant."

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  1. Re:FUD? by 1000101 · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    MS has had a bad habit of tying thier programs into deep hooks inside their kernel in order to get some extra functionality or a bit of performance increase. The problem with this is that it provides a route for errors/viruses/malware/etc to enter into the kernel space through a regular program.

    So are you saying that a properly written, secure, Windows program will run faster and with more features than an equivalent *nix program?