Q: Do you view Linux and the open-source movement as a threat to
Microsoft?

	A: Yeah. It's good competition. It will force us to be
innovative. It will force us to justify the prices and value that we
deliver. And that's only healthy. The only thing we have a problem with
is when the government funds open-source work. Government funding should
be for work that is available to everybody. Open source is not available
to commercial companies. The way the license is written, if you use any
open-source software, you have to make the rest of your software open
source. If the government wants to put something in the public domain,
it should. Linux is not in the public domain. Linux is a cancer that
attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it
touches. That's the way that the license works. 

	-- Steve Ballmer, http://www.suntimes.com/output/tech/cst-fin-micro01.html