Microsoft CEO downplays Linux-Oregon connection
5/10/2006
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| Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer is less than impressed with
| a rival computer software developer based in Oregon.
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| "There's no innovation that we've seen come out of -- at least Linux,"
| Ballmer said Tuesday. "Linux is a clone of a 30-years-old operating system
(called Unix)."
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| Intel and IBM base their Linux development work in Oregon, and last
| year Google Inc. donated $350,000 to support open source research at
| Oregon State and PSU.
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| "I think it kind of woke them up and they said, open source is taking
| over Oregon," Miller said. "Microsoft wants to be a player. They're
| thinking they've ignored Oregon a little too long."
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| "We make a much bigger economic impact in Oregon," he said. "Open
| source doesn't come from a company. It comes from the ether. That's
| part of its gestalt.
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| "But the only physical presence it appears to have anywhere in the
| world happens to be here in Oregon. So I suspect that contributes to
| the buzz factor."
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