MS Backs Off "Linux Costs More" Claim
from the yeah,-we-made-that-up dept
The Register has noticed that it appears Microsoft is quietly backing off their made up FUD claims that Linux actually costs more. They quote Steve Ballmer saying in an interview that Microsoft is struggling with a new way of thinking because they "haven't figured out how to be lower-priced than Linux". Also, the Register points out that a page on the Microsoft site that used to call claims of Linux costing less a "myth" have been removed.
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To hear Microsoft say...
It is funny reading Microsofts' interpretation of the situation... According to Microsoft, because NVIDIA chose to use GPL code within their driver, and then not want to publish the source for the driver, they had to spend an awful lot of extra money rewriting the driver so it didn't contain GPL, therefore Linux Sux and Windows is better.
Of course, had the developer not used the GPL code, NVIDIA would have still had to spend an awful lot of extra money writing the driver since they didn't use the code...
Funny how that works...
Of course, what Microsoft wants you to believe is that it is perfectly ok to steal source code from someone else (because Microsoft does it all the time,) but GPL is bad because if you steal someone elses source code, implement it into yours, don't release the source, and they find out and sue...that is a bad thing.
Funny how that works too...
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