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Microsoft Sees Linux As Bigger Competitor Than Apple

Posted by timothy on from the third-place-is-interesting-too dept.

Facetious writes "It seems Microsoft doesn't believe the data from Net Applications regarding Linux any more than Slashdot readers do. In a recent presentation, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer showed a slide showing, from Microsoft's internal analysis, that Linux client use is clearly ahead of Apple's."

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  1. Trademark and copyright loss: no problem by jonaskoelker · · Score: 5, Interesting

    What if they offered Linus Torvalds a billion dollars for the trademark and the copyright to his code?

    And assuming Linus accepted, of course...

    Then we'd fork the latest version of the kernel (and git, and * FROM code WHERE copyright_holder = "Linus") and hack on.

    To deal with the trademark, we'd have to rename the kernel. We could always use Linus' original name, Freax, or name it after some other maintainer... Mortonix? Coxix?

    And then there'd be happy hacking all around.