Steve Ballmer (Microsoft CEO) keeps cultivating "strategic uncertainty" about open source software and Linux: Linux, according to Microsoft may infringe on their IP (Intellectual Property) but they are reluctant to become more specific.
What this strategy is signaling is that Ballmer sees open source as a growing credible threat to Microsoft. However, hiding their best "legal weapons" till things get worse, is not the smartest strategy. So either Microsoft does not have any "legal weapons", or they do have but they have not figured out how to use them, or they are working hard to accumulate "legal weapons" but are not there yet. Unless they have decided that co-existing with open source, serves them better than fighting it, and the rest is just "strategic noise"
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