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Steve Ballmer's Thoughts On Free Software

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the there's-a-slow-change-coming dept.

An anonymous reader writes, "Steve Ballmer during a 3-day visit to India was asked about whether Free software is the future of India. And he effectively circumvented the question and answered that in the future, software businesses can look at a number of revenue streams such as subscription fees, lower cost hardware, advertising and of course traditional transaction. What is amusing is that in answering the question, he refuses to use the word 'free' or anything close to it."

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  1. Re:India and free don't go well together by Silverstrike · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Yea, I dunno, I call shenanigans.

    By my count, your post has 832 words in it. (Alright, fine, by MS Word's count).

    It was posted 1 minute after the article went up.

    That's some A-mazing typing there cheif. (Or the Slashcode is broken again)