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  From: James Leone <linuxcpa@netscape.net>
  To  : <davidn@rebel.net.au>
  Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 10:12:59 -0700

Re: Steve Ballmer Not Loosing Sleep Over Linux

davidn@rebel.net.au wrote:

>Glen Turner <glen.turner@aarnet.edu.au> wrote:
>  
>
>>James Leone wrote:
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>>
Just for clarification, and this is not directed at anyone in 
particular, but.... in case these messages are read 5 years from now, 
Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft wrote the below.... :-D

>>>thing. It's not like IBM can support Linux the way they support the
>>>mainframe operating system. They don't write the code for it. All they
>>>can say is, 'You can call us and ask us a question, but if you
>>>actually want something done we can't do it.'
>>>      
>>>
>>I can think of at least three people on this mailing list
>>I could approach with a bucket of cash and a bug fix request
>>and know the result would end up in the mainline code to
>>whatever code is at fault.
>>    
>>
>
>But IBM can't put them in a box them and sell them.  If IBM make a
>promise they fully expect to be able to keep it.  On the other hand the
>IBM rep. probably gives the same advice as you.
>
>  
>

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