Link from The Age newspaper.
Needless to say, I am an enormous fan of *nix, and to see Microsoft putting a kibosh on something community owned and operated just pumps my nads. Give it ten years, and the ONLY operating system we'll have will be a conglomeration of Linux and Windows, and it'll be wholly owned by MS.Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said if customers bought Linux from anyone but Novell, they could face trouble.
"If a customer says, 'Look, do we have liability for the use of your patented work?' Essentially, if you're using non-SUSE Linux, then I'd say the answer is yes," Ballmer told eWeek.com recently, referring to the Linux system sold by Novell.
"I suspect that (customers) will take that issue up with their distributor," Ballmer said, adding that if customers considered doing a direct download of a non-SUSE Linux version, "they'll think twice about that."
Bastards.
