Microsoft Corp. executives have called the open-source software Linux a cancer. They even have described the increasingly popular operating system -- an alternative to Microsoft's proprietary Windows -- as un-American.
But now they are hoping to attach a different word: costly.
As businesses increasingly adopt Linux to run their computer servers, Microsoft is shifting the battleground from schoolyard insults to corporate notions of "business value."
"There has been a lot of debate in the Linux space that has been focused on the emotion and focused on the technology," said Peter Houston, senior director of server strategy for Microsoft.
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