Steve Ballmer

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• When we tell the story about what's happening today with browsers ten years from now, I want the thing that replaces Windows to be Windows. I don't want to wake up in a position one day where the guys at Netscape say, "Isn't Windows just that little thing that we use to put up menus and draw lines? Let's just write our own and suck it up into our client."
  • Interview by CNET (May 1996)

• We've had DRM in Windows for years. The most common format of music on an iPod is "stolen".
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    • Most people still steal music.
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        • I think it would be absolutely reckless and irresponsible for anyone to try and break up Microsoft.
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            • Linux is not in the public domain. Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches. That's the way that the license works.
              • "Microsoft CEO takes launch break with the Sun-Times" (1 June 2001) Chicago Sun Times
            
            
            • I've got my kids brainwashed: You don't use Google, and you don't use an iPod.
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                • I don't really know that anybody's proven that a random collection of people doing their own thing actually creates value.
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                    • Developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers.
                    
                    

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                    • I'm going to fucking bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I'm going to fucking kill Google.
                      • Attributed by Mark Lucovsky in
                        • • The article goes on to say, "Ballmer has described Lucovsky's account of the incident as a 'gross exaggeration of what actually took place'."