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Shuttleworth on Ballmer

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Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
Oct 11, 2007

“Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has once more claimed that Linux
and open source violates Microsoft’s intellectual property and
patents. Canonical’s CEO Mark Shuttleworth thinks Ballmer has it
all wrong.

“In an interview with Linux-Watch, Shuttleworth, the man behind
the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution, explained why he thinks
Ballmer’s latest claims against Linux and open source are so much
nonsense…”

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