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Ballmer Says Linux "Infringes Our Intellectual Property"
Stony Stevenson writes "In comments confirming the open-source community's suspicions, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer Thursday declared his belief that the Linux operating system infringes on Microsoft's intellectual property." From the ComputerWorld article: "In a question-and-answer session after his keynote speech at the Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS) conference in Seattle, Ballmer said Microsoft was motivated to sign a deal with SUSE Linux distributor Novell earlier this month because Linux 'uses our intellectual property' and Microsoft wanted to 'get the appropriate economic return for our shareholders from our innovation.'" His exact wording is available at the Seattle Intelligencer, which has a transcript of the interview. Groklaw had an article up Wednesday giving some perspective on the Novell/Microsoft deal. Guess we'll have something to talk about in 2007, huh?
This article and the $$ of microbraniz PI**** me OFF! So i am willing to put my money where my mouth is in the defence of FREEDOM! http://www.pledgebank.com/MicrosoftVsLINUX What about you? SPREAD THE WORD!
On to more important issues...M$ sucks (now were back to a normal
When I have a kid, I want to put him in one of those strollers for twins and then run around the mall looking frantic.
And Windows developers are descended from convicts!!