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« Google warns: profits will slow | Main | Dollar continues record losses » November 18, 2004Microsoft attacks Linux in the developing worldMicrosoft Chief Executive Office, Steve Ballmer, speaking at a meeting of Microsoft's Asian Government Leaders Forum in Singapore, claimed that Linux violated at least 228 patents - and warned that developing countries that embrace Linux could face could face massive liabilities on intellectual property rights claims. Primarily behind the claims is US company SCO, which has claimed intellectual rights to areas of Linux code - but in a case already dragging, SCO has failed to offer public proofs and is reported to be losing backers. Steve Ballmer also rubbished claims of Microsoft's security record, insisting that where something is broken, Microsoft will fix it - which it has to be said, runs counter from my own experience of life with Microsoft XP after Service Pack 2. The aggressive approach of Microsoft is very much in part to major losses to Linux, which harms Microsoft's distribution further. According to a BBC report: Microsoft 'warns of Linux claims' Singapore's Ministry of Defence recently switched 20,000 of its personal computers from Microsoft's operating platform to open-source software. A recent UK government report has already recommended substantial savings if departments moved to Linux, and government agencies in France and Germany have already started using free Linux distrubitions. What'll be interesting to see is whether The Microsoft XP SP2 update, which apprently crippled 10% of business computers running the install, will hasten the increase in use of Linux distributions.
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