The complete quote is Linux is not in the public domain. Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches. Tha

The complete quote is 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. So, he was talking about the license (it would also make little sense to say that an OS kernel is cancer). > Gates himself who would routinely visit various heads of states lobbying for MS contracts Gates was trying to sell his software to potential clients? What a terrible human being! :) Much worse were the anti-competitive agreements with OEMs, performing super strict license checks on business dealing with Linux and so on.