With the tens of billions of dollars they have in the bank, I believe MS could
afford to kill Linux and absorb the resulting antitrust fines. As long as 90%
of desktops use MS technology they're not going anywhere.
Given Ballmer's enjoyment of killing things, I would not be surprised
to see MS
try to leverage their patents against Linux. Look at how they've been so
successful in preventing NTFS write support?
Quoting Steven Buehler <swbuehler@gmail.com>:
> Microsoft would be suicidal to attempt to enforce the patent, given its
> already tenuous antitrust situation.
>
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