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Thursday, February 13, 2003
Gates Keeps Eye on Linux Threat - Thor Olavsrud, Internet News
Attempting to show that Microsoft's software development model has some distinct advantages over the more amorphous model of the open source community, Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates Tuesday drew a parallel between the fragmentation that hobbled Unix in the '80s and the state of the GNU/Linux platform today. According to eWeek, Gates told nearly 700 of Microsoft's Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs) at the eighth annual MVP Summit that Linux is an "unusual kind of competition because in a way it's out there and very pervasive. In a way, there's more incompatible versions of Linux than there are of all other operating systems put together. That is, as people do innovations on top of Linux, they don't all get tested together and they're not all consistent with each other."
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