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Ballmer: We're cheaper than Apple! (but not Linux)
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| Microsoft may have been able to get Novell to "put a price on Linux" through
| intellectual property scare tactics, but it hasn't worked for the market
| leaders, Red Hat and Canonical (Ubuntu). Nor has it worked for the leading
| hardware and software vendors that depend on Linux, e.g., IBM, Oracle, SAP,
| etc.
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| Incidentally, these same vendors make up a significant ecosystem around
| Linux, the very same ecosystem that Ballmer suggests is won't form due to a
| lack of incentives. Apparently he didn't talk to his closest partner, Intel,
| which is now the No. 2 contributor to the Linux kernel. I guess he didn't
| realize that there's a lot of money to be made around Linux, and it's money
| that doesn't have to be shared with Microsoft.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10301028-16.html
Microsoft engages in "Racketeering", according to Mark Shuttleworth.
Related:
[Mark Shuttleworth Interview]
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| Microsoft is asking people to pay them for patents, but they won't
| say which ones. If a guy walks into a shop and says: "It's an
| unsafe neighbourhood, why don't you pay me 20 bucks and I'll make
| sure you're okay," that's illegal. It's racketeering. What Microsoft
| is doing with intellectual property is exactly the same. It's a great
| company and I have great admiration for it, but this was not a
| well considered position.
|
| So you wouldn't do a deal?
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| No, absolutely not. But the time will come when the folks at
| Microsoft who have a clear vision for the company as a participant
| in this community, rather than as a hostile antagonist, will win.
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http://mybroadband.co.za/nephp/?m=show&id=6672
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