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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2005-11-11
//However, it is a big gamble, since they will have to not only do all the work to track MS's APIs alone, but may in fact have to reimplement any major piece of Linux-centric technology that goes GPL3 (e.g. Samba, though this is pure speculation on my part) to include it in SuSE, and also deal with the fact that this move is going to make any attempts to push their own technologies with the Linux community (e.g. Mono in GNOME) a huge uphill battle.//
Novell probably will have a problem with Samba going to GPL3, but they will certainly have an utter deal-breaker when all of GNU (from the FSF) goes to GPL v3.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_GNU_packages
There is no SuSe at all without gcc, glibc, binutils and coreutils.