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Ozzie: Open source a more disruptive competitor than Google
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| Competitors like his former employer, Lotus, and now, Google, have spurred
| the company to make changes to its business to stay ahead, Ozzie said. But
| while Google is a “tremendously strong competitor,” Ozzie acknowledged, “open
| source was much more potentially disruptive” to Microsoft’s business. (He
| noted that, unlike Google, many open-source programmers aren’t beholden to
| shareholders.)
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1418
Not Apple, not IBM, not Google, not Sun. Microsoft is most afraid of FOSS, so
it's trying to subvert it and make it Windows-dependent, the other option
being "patent terrorism" and expansion of software patents.
Recent:
Feeling the heat at Microsoft
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| A couple of years ago you reiterated that IBM was Microsoft's biggest
| competitor and you said not just on the business side, but overall. If I ask
| you who is Microsoft's biggest competitor now, who would it be?
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| Ballmer: Open...Linux. I don't want to say open source. Linux, certainly have
| to go with that.
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http://www.news.com/Feeling-the-heat-at-Microsoft/2008-1012_3-6232458.html?tag=ne.fd.mnbc
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