By Richard Thurston
Published: Wednesday 21 February 2007
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Ballmer's comments are more show than substance. I believe, unless I am mistaken, that SUSE is using the same kernal as other Linux distributions. IBM assisted in a complete overhaual of the kernal and filed many patents with the patent office. Microsoft versus IBM would be a joke. IBM has more patents than everyone else combined and they only enforce a subset of them.
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