Microsoft&#39;s Linux Strategist Speaks Out
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Beyond mapping out a strategy to take on Novell, Microsoft is putting an enormous amount of effort into its &quot;get out the facts&quot; campaign, which makes direct comparisons of Linux costs and Windows pricing.
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The Microsoft chief executive warns Linux sellers that open-source "is not free."
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InfoWorld - Leaders of Microsoft&#39;s strategy to make its products more interoperable with competitive technologies said the company still hopes to strike a Linux pact with Red Hat similar to the partnerships it&#39;s forged with Linux vendors Novell, Xandros, and Linspire.
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Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates, during an appearance on Friday at the US Computer History Museum, expressed no fear of Linux usurping Windows in the software industry.
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Back in February, Ralph Green asked me to speak at the North Texas Linux Users' Group. I discussed Linux administration and then took questions. Some one in the audience asked me about Mono. I gave a cavalier answer having a bias against it. Then someone else in the audience said that I needed to get my facts straight.
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InfoWorld - Microsoft's aggressive defense of its intellectual property, which includes claims that Linux violates a number of its patents, is nothing more than "a marketing thing," according to Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux kernel.
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Joyce Plotkin, Massachusetts Software Council&#39;s president, told LinuxInsider that the group regularly brings heavy hitters to its membership meetings, and that past speakers have included Bill Gates and Steve Jobs.
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Comments made by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer last Thursday to an analyst conference for the most part went unnoticed until stories this morning cited excerpts from a freshly published transcript of that conference. In one such story, an excerpted partial sentence was interpreted as part of a statement that Microsoft may yet exercise its option to sue manufacturers of Linux operating systems other than Novell for infringement of patent.
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The founder of the Free Software Foundation comments on free software, Torvalds, Microsoft, and lazy users.
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Are you convinced that Windows environments are less expensive to own and operate than Linux computers? Martin Taylor, the manager behind Microsoftâs anti-Linux strategy, believes the companyâs Get The
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Microsoft's chairman weighs in on the Internet, e-business, and his retirement plans.
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McNealy stressed that Linux wasn&#39;t the enemy. He noted that Sun Microsystems is one of the leading contributors of free software to open-source projects, that Sun sells computers equipped
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New platform chief, Ashim Pal, says software giant has been on the defensive against Linux and other rivals.
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According to a recent report from a research group, Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer at an Asian Government Leaders Forum in Singapore claimed that Linux violates more than 228 patents.
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Is this the right book to introduce Microsoft power users to Linux?
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This is, after all, the man who once said &quot;to heck with Janet Reno&quot; during the early days of the company&#39;s antitrust saga, and who more recently has called Linux a &quot;cancer&quot;.
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Microsoft (Quote, Chart) CEO Steve Ballmer urged Asian government leaders not to take sides in the Linux versus Windows debate. &quot;We recommend to all governments that they not get emotionally involved in preferring