Ballmer Threatens Linux and Open Source with Patents Again By Steven J.
Vaughan-Nichols
October 9, 2007
Here we go again. At a Microsoft partner meeting in London, Ballmer said
Linux open source violates Microsoft patents and intellectual property.
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At a small meeting of Web 2.0 developers and partners on Oct. 1 at
Microsoft's London office, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer once more
attacked Linux and open source for violating Microsoft's patents.
The meeting was a Microsoft-sponsored event: the UK Microsoft Startup
Accelerator Programme launch event called The Online Opportunity.
According to Lars Lindstedt, who heads up Microsoft's UK Software
Economy and Emerging Business programme, "The intention was to bring
together some of the UK's brightest developers, entrepreneurs and
investors who are working in the Web 2.0 space."
In the meeting's question and answer session, Ballmer took shots at
Google ("They read your mail, we don't. That's not pejorative, that's
just a fact.") as well as Linux and open source.
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Linux-Watch, go here.
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