On Tuesday 08 May 2007 13:41, Mike McMullin wrote:
On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 11:49 -0800, John Andersen wrote:
On Tuesday 08 May 2007, Marcus Meissner wrote:
Much posturing, but Balmer is still claiming Linux violates MS IP
Any cites for this statement? Its just FUD.
If I need to cite that for you, you must have been stationed on Mars for the last year.
Cite it anyway, the onus is now on you, this being a fairly asked question.
Fairly asked question? This is either a mistake, in that John suggested the FUD part of the question to refer to the validity of Ballmer's claims, or a troll, and I suspect the former. The Linux mailing lists have been all over Monkey-Boy Steve Ballmer's comments. Here's just one quote, from http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9005171 November 16, 2006 (Computerworld) -- In comments confirming the open-source community's suspicions, Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer today 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 (PASS) conference in Seattle, Ballmer said Microsoft was motivated to sign a deal with SUSE Linux distributor Novell Inc. earlier this month because Linux "uses our intellectual property" and Microsoft wanted to "get the appropriate economic return for our shareholders from our innovation." -- bob@rsmits.ca -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org