:Bill Gates: Our Most Potent Operating System Competitor is Linux
Bill Gates: Our Most Potent Operating System Competitor is Linux Jun 23, 2009, 17 :19 UTC (5 Talkback[s]) (9248 reads) (Other stories by Roy Schestowitz)
"Our most potent Operating System competitor is Linux and the phenomena around Open Source and free software. The same phenomena fuels competitors to all of our products. The ease of picking up Linux to learn it or to modify some piece of it is very attractive. The academic community, start up companies, foreign governments and many other constituencies are putting their best work into Linux. "