Shuttleworth on Ballmer

Published: Oct 10, 2007
Updated: Feb 2, 2021
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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has once more claimed that Linux and open source violates Microsofts intellectual property and patents. Canonicals CEO Mark Shuttleworth thinks Ballmer has it all wrong.

In an interview with Linux-Watch, Shuttleworth, the man behind the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution, explained why he thinks Ballmers latest claims against Linux and open source are so much nonsense.

For starters, Shuttleworth said, Ballmer is implying that open-source developers dont take IP seriously. Nothing could be further from the truth, he said.

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Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

I'm editor-at-large for Ziff Davis Enterprise. That's a fancy title that means I write about whatever topic strikes my fancy or needs written about across the Ziff Davis Enterprise family of publications. You'll find most of my stories in Linux-Watch, DesktopLinux and eWEEK. Prior to becoming a technology journalist, I worked at NASA and the Department of Defense on numerous major technological projects.

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