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How about when Steve Ballmer said something along the lines of “Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touch
by taf2 6y ago
How about when Steve Ballmer said something along the lines of
“Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches”
Pretty sure that is hostile towards open source? Linux being one of the flagship projects of open source.
[edit] source https://www.zdnet.com/article/ex-windows-chief-heres-why-microsoft-waged-war-on-open-source/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/ex-windows-chief-heres-why-mic...
- Closi 6y agoIt’s hostile to the GPL licence which means anything licensed under GPL can’t be used in Microsoft’s proprietary products. I would personally say Microsoft wasn’t necessarily driven by anti open-source hate necessarily, they were just very anti-competitor. Microsoft tried to compete with their biggest competitor? Colour me shocked.
- Zee2 6y agoDisclaimer: Microsoft employee In my experience, I work at a completely different company than the one that Ballmer ran. Nearly everyone I talk to speaks of the "Ballmer era" in a negative light, and confirms that Satya literally turned the entire company on its head. Many things happen every day that would never have happened under Ballmer.