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1. Comment - Microsoft Responds to Alleged Ballmer 'Threats' Against Linux

   (Feb 23, 2007 - 10:44 AM)

   If Microsoft is planning on making an aggressive move agaist Linux and open source in general, it is quite expected. It only means that they have come to understand that facing their highly overpriced operating system are more productive and cost effective alternatives for people who need to accomplish their tasks with less headache and less worrying about the system crashing in the middle of an important project or important data being permanently lost while still in the creation phase because of a system glich.
   
   It is sort of the move Apple Computer made back when Microsoft introduced Windows 98. At that time Microsoft had been using the Windows GUI for a few years. But it was only until the launch of Windows 98 that apple felt threatened by a GUI OS similar to theirs that might cost them a portion of the market share and went on to sue Microsoft for 'stealing' their ideas and using them in their new OS.
   
   Several years have passed since then and Apple has lerarned to accept the fact that Windows is there and that playing monopoly was wrong and cost them a lot, just as Microsoft will find out someday.
   
   Should Microsoft find ways to bind the open source distributors we have now by something users believe is unfair, other distributors will surface and keep the open source legacy going only because it is inevitable considering human nature. By nature we do not like to be opressed and forced against our will and this applies to all aspects of life including the digital wolrd which has a major impact on our life at present.