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Friday, April 22, 2005
Microsoft cures cancer!
From Newsfactor:
Microsoft: Linux Is No Longer a Cancer
Microsoft, a company worth billions, is now admitting a slice of defeat to a operating system that began as a Finnish student's hobby. Occasionally having a superior product at a better price prevails, even against predatory monopolies.
Citing interoperability as a larger goal, Microsoft has promised that it will add Linux support to its Virtual Server 2005 Service Pack 1, due by the end of the year. It will be the first Microsoft product to get Linux support. ...
Having Microsoft's Linux support announcement come from Ballmer is an especially intriguing move, given the executive's past comments.
In 2001, Ballmer stated that "Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches."
A few years later he softened his approach, but still criticized the system as one that lacked innovation and communality.
