SAN FRANCISCO: Fifteen years after calling the open-source operating system Linux a "cancer," former Microsoft Corp chief executive Steve Ballmer has softened his position.
Speaking on March 9 at a dinner hosted by Fortune magazine, Ballmer said the position was right for the time, but the threat from Linux was now "in the rearview mirror."
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