Balmer: Nothing's rotten in Denmark

But wasn't his timing great: Ballmer said innovation is much more likely to come from commercial software companies than from open-source ones.

"A lot of what open source, not all, has been about is creating good clones of commercial software," Ballmer said. "That's what Linux is. It's a good clone of Unix."

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I.B.M. researchers said they have made design changes in the Power 5 microprocessor to improve the performance of the Linux operating system...[/]

Linux is an operating system. What is it you want an operating system to do? Maybe, like, improve performance? Seems there's innovation going on somewhere.; Posted by: IT_User Posted on: 07/14/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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