# Linux Users Owe MS

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/linux-users-owe-ms/207502>\
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**Created:** [November 18, 2006, 7:37am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/linux-users-owe-ms/207502 "2006-11-18T07:37:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jeff\_Wheeler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/59ef9b/32.png) [@Jeff\_Wheeler](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Jeff_Wheeler)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2006, 7:37am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/linux-users-owe-ms/207502/1 "2006-11-18T07:37:17Z")

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You’ve got to be kidding… how can anybody still listen to that idiot?

[http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/exec/steve/default.mspx](http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/exec/steve/default.mspx)

> [@The Article](#):
>
> At the time, Microsoft officials, including Ballmer, were mum on whether the Linux kernel, which is governed by the General Public License and takes contributions from programmers all around the world, violated Microsoft’s patents.
> 
> Ballmer was more open Thursday.
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> “Novell pays us some money for the right to tell customers that anybody who uses SUSE Linux is appropriately covered,” Ballmer said. This “is important to us, because [otherwise] we believe every Linux customer basically has an undisclosed balance-sheet liability.”

He never ceases to amaze, does he…

[list][_]Throwing a chair in the conference room about Google  
[_]“Developers, developers, developers…!”  
[\*]Linux users owe MS cash[/list]

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