[GLLUG] Ballmer's latest rant

[Charles Ulrich]

On Friday 17 November 2006 13:12, Michael Rudas (computer) wrote:
> (Quoted, in part, from someone else's posting.)
>
> And so it begins... the worst fears about the Microsoft/Novell "deal"
> now appear to be confirmed:
> http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/microsoft/archives/108806.asp
>
> Especially interesting is the part where Ballmer states:
>
> "to the degree that people are going to deploy Linux, we want Suse Linux
> to have the highest percent share of that, because only a customer who
> has Suse Linux actually has paid properly for the use of intellectual
> property from Microsoft."
>
> And:
>
> "...anybody who has got Linux in their data center today sort of has an
> undisclosed balance sheet liability..."
>
> "Sort of," he says.  This "intellectual property" vagueness seems VERY
> familiar.  Hmmm...
>
> So the war is now officially on.  Since the SCO ploy failed, Ballmer has
> now gone to plan B-- Microsoft (and Novell) are the NEW SCO.  Hopefully
> this a useful wake-up call for people who've been in denial about this.

It's interesting to note that, just like SCO, Microsoft has so far refused to 
say *which* intellectual property that Linux supposedly infringes upon. 
They're not interested in having hackers fix the problem because that would 
remove the cloud of FUD that they're trying to fly over the open source 
community.

-- 
Charles Ulrich
Ideal Solution, LLC -- http://www.idealso.com