Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 18th Feb 2007 21:00 UTC, submitted by anonymous
The same week that Microsoft issued a press release providing further details about some of the technological advances that will result from the November 2006 technology agreement between Novell and Microsoft, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told Wall Street what he really thinks the deal means to Microsoft. During a forecast update meeting for financial analysts and shareholders on February 15, Ballmer reiterated that, to him, the deal is more about Microsoft exerting intellectual property pressure on Novell than anything else.
Permalink for comment 214212
To read all comments associated with this story, please click here.
To read all comments associated with this story, please click here.
Recent Original Stories
Recent Comments
Headlines
Random Comments
Random Stories
Random OS Link
Member since:
2006-02-22
The cheek of it, from a company who's latest and greatest is a shameless rip off of ideas in other OS beggars belief. I suspect this is all about FUD, however, sometimes if you make enough people believe a lie is true it becomes true.
I do hope that at least a few European legislators are looking at how this company is hoping to use the law to guarantee it's profits for ever, why innovate when you've got lawyers.