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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:Balmer: Research it yourselves. by NanoGator · · Score: 0, Troll

    "Good idea, coming from a company that regularly commissions independant researchers to prove their point of the day."

    If this point is so 'interesting' then maybe the /. editors should be more careful about screening MS stories here. Nearly every ms story is followed by a bunch of highly modded RTFA comments.

    People in glass houses....

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  2. Re:FUD? by NanoGator · · Score: 0, Troll

    "The interesting question would be if it'd also be 0wned just as much."

    The mere fact that that question exists tells me that Ballmer has a point. You guys just don't know. That doesn't mean that you should switch to Windows, but it does mean that you should be treating your computer like it could spontaneously explode at any minute. No different than Windowsx.

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    "Derp de derp."