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If I recall correctly, wasn't the "cancer" remark in reference to the GPL?
by smitherfield 9y ago
If I recall correctly, wasn't the "cancer" remark in reference to the GPL?
- sangnoir 9y agoYour recollection is inaccurate. > Microsoft CEO and incontinent over-stater of facts Steve Ballmer said that "Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches," during a commercial spot masquerading as a interview with the Chicago Sun-Times on June 1, 2001.[0] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/06/02/ballmer_linux_is_a_cancer/ https://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/06/02/ballmer_linux_is_a_...