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"Linux users to Microsoft: What 'balance sheet liability'?
'I took great offense to Ballmer's comments,' says one CIO"

"Barry Strasnick, CIO of North Quincy, Mass. financial services
provider CitiStreet LLC, was even more emphatic.

"Like many IT executives, I took great offense to Ballmer's
comments," Strasnick wrote in an e-mail. CitiStreet uses Red Hat Linux
widely in its data centers. "If Microsoft really thinks there is some
code in Linux that violates their patents, they should publish those lines
of codes immediately instead of just posturing in the press. [Fear,
uncertainty and doubt] may have worked for IBM in the 1970s (some of us are
old enough to have been around then), but not today."

"And Microsoft's assertions might be even backfire. "There were
some applications I had been thinking about moving to a Microsoft platform,
but this has now totally alienated me from Microsoft," Strasnick
said."


Adam

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