Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft recently told a group of government officials of Asian countries that to use Linux will result in law suits over intellectual property. He declined to mention that Microsoft might be behind many of these lawsuits, but that is the conclusion drawn by at least one journalist. After trying traditional competitive tactics against Linux and failing, Microsoft now seem to have decided that legal threats of IP suits will achieve the high level of FUD they require to compete fairly.
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