ZDNet: Could Microsoft Have Killed Linux?

“Last year Microsoft launched a virulent attack on the
open-source movement, and particular the GNU Public License on
which open-source software such as the GNU/Linux operating system
is based. High-level executives called Linux a “cancer” and a
threat to intellectual property laws and capitalism itself.

“The company has backed off from such statements since then, but
Raymond said that if Microsoft had tried the attack a bit earlier
it could have succeeded…”

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