CNET News: Cyberpeace--Of Sorts--In Our Time

"What's the extent of the kumbaya that we saw on stage between the two of you?
Ballmer: Let me give you a way of thinking about it. Whatever you think the relationship has been between us and Unix, essentially we're able now to embrace a framework that is much more similar...It's a framework of competition: Windows competes with Unix, Windows competes with Linux. Linux is the popular form of Unix on Intel machines. We compete. And in a sense, that's the dominant theme for both of us..."

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