Always On: Bill: Linux Is Too Pricey

“AlwaysOn: Do you think of Linux when you
sleep, and say, ‘Oh God, Linux again!’

“Gates: Well, in every period of Microsoft’s
history there’s been something. There was OS/2. For a while, that
was a pretty serious problem. The largest consumer company in the
world told us their army was marching and was going to destroy us.
It was a competitive battle. And there have been others.

“Not that long ago, there was this rhetoric about long-term
R&D being unimportant and the operating system being
irrelevant. That thinking was pretty prevalent for a while…”

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