Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 17th Nov 2006 13:23 UTC, submitted by Tanked
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. In a question-and-answer session after his keynote speech at the Professional Association for SQL Server 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."
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2006-06-09
no, because of the patents. well, it's legal in europe for example.
IANAL and VERY roughly, patents are there to protect ideas, or, "software ideas" in that case.
patents are an unfair system to protect innovation, else people could just copy and sell what was your original idea (that's why patents expire too, after a while, when you gained from your ideas, everyone is free to use it)
that's why europe voted against it for software, because it destroy more than it gives. people start patenting anything, browser, windows, icons, etc => no more competitivity