Microsoft, legal expert question Linux's free model | Linux Today

Microsoft, legal expert question Linux’s free model

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Sep 30, 1998

“Linux is a respectable competitor,” said Ed Muth, enterprise
marketing group manager for Microsoft’s Windows NT.” They are not
the largest in the landscape, but they are important enough for us
to be thinking about.”

Rich Gray, intellectual property and antitrust attorney with law
firm Bergeson, Eliopoulos, Grady & Gray thinks that the Linux
model may not last.

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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