Microsoft CEO and incontinent over-stater of facts Steve Ballmer said
that "Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual
property sense to everything it touches," during a commercial spot
masquerading as a media interview with the Chicago Sun-Times Friday.
Ballmer was trying to articulate his concern, whether real or imagined,
that limited recourse to the GNU GPL requires that all software be made
open source.
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