Article Source The Open Road
July 31, 2009, 12:53 pm
July 31, 2009, 12:53 pm
Whenever Microsoft starts to look like a company that is ready to play fair with open source, along comes its CEO, Steve Ballmer, to ruin all the goodwill the rest of the company has created.
In talking up Microsoft’s deal with Yahoo, Ballmer couldn’t restrain himself from talking about Apple or Linux:
Linux. It’s all about Linux. We’ve been competing with Linux for a number of years. I want to describe our value proposition. We are a high-volume player. We do not, like Apple, believe in low-volume, very high prices. Apple’s a great company, does a fine job, but their model says high margin, high quality, high price, that’s kinda how they come to market…
