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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2006-06-21
I'm just surpriced that no-one saw this coming. Of course a company will sue anyone that uses their intellectual property.
Whining is useless when the law is at somebodys side. The software world isn't anymore some separate underground movement.
Removing all the IP violating code is going to give Linux a really big boost at the market.