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Linux users to Microsoft: What 'balance sheet liability'?
'I took great offense to Ballmer's comments,' says one CIO
by Eric Lai

November 21, 2006 (Computerworld) -- While Microsoft Corp. may cast the
Nov. 2 patent cooperation agreement it pushed on new partner Novell Inc.
as a way to protect corporate users of the SUSE Linux operating system
from potential lawsuits, CIOs today said they weren't worried in the
first place.

"I do not believe that my company has an "undisclosed balance sheet
liability," Russ Donnan, CIO at business information provider Kroll
Factual Data, said in an e-mail response to questions from Computerworld
about the Microsoft deal.

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