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Microsoft CEO takes launch break with the Sun-Times | |
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| Time: 15:51 EST/20:51 GMT | News Source: Chicago Sun Times | Posted By: Robert Stein | ||
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Chicago Sun Times - Q: Do you view Linux and the open-source movement as a threat to Microsoft? Steve Ballmer - A: Yeah. It's good competition. It will force us to be innovative. It will force us to justify the prices and value that we deliver. And that's only healthy. The only thing we have a problem with is when the government funds open-source work. Government funding should be for work that is available to everybody. Open source is not available to commercial companies. The way the license is written, if you use any open-source software, you have to make the rest of your software open source. If the government wants to put something in the public domain, it should. Linux is not in the public domain. Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches. That's the way that the license works. | ||
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| #1 By 135 (Unknown) at 6/1/2001 6:07:00 PM |
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Hey, #4... pretty funny.
Well I checked slashdot and they're all over it. Completely misquoted Ballmer as well. Ballmer is correct, that the Government should not be involved in funding software under the GPL. |
| #2 By 20 (Unknown) at 6/1/2001 10:13:00 PM |
| What he meant to say was that GPL, and apps written with it are a cancer that will slowly take over software, just like cancer. In this regard, GNU/Linux is one of, if not the, largest GPL projects and has caused many a financial headache for any company who has become involved with it. Licenses like GPL will bring about the dark ages of software if something isn't done. Hopefully, licenses like BSD, and it's kid brother Apache will become more popular and allow businesses to be more free with software which would bring about the Englightenment of software. |
| #3 By 415 (Unknown) at 6/2/2001 11:31:00 AM |
| I agree with #8, there's just some truthes that should never be said in such a massively public manor. But, then again, you gotta hand it to Ballmer... the man's got some huge nards. :) |
| #4 By 20 (Unknown) at 6/2/2001 6:10:00 PM |
| Balmer has always had a problem with keeping his mouth shut. He made some comments that spooked investors late last year and lost several million because of it. You'd think he'd learn the 3rd or 4th time =) |
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