“Bill Gates said that while he views Linux as a competitor, he
does not expect it to have a significant impact on commercial
markets.”
“There has certainly been a lot of free software out there for
the last 20 years,” Gates said. “The main thing that has held that
back is that because it’s free software there’s no central point of
control. So what you see with Linux, and other things, is you get
proliferations of different versions and everybody can go into the
source code, and everybody does.”