Ballmer Blasted Blasted for Linux Stance.

The article reports on the criticism by Novell Inc. against the statement of Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft Corp., regarding Linux's intellectual property in the U.S. Ballmer has declared that Linux has used their intellectual property which eventually attracted several controversies. Ballmer has asserted that every Linux user has an undisclosed balance sheet liability. Furthermore, according to Russ Donnan, chief information officer at Kroll Inc.'s Kroll Factual Data, Ballmer has postured for mind share to enterprise executives which would have little impact to no impact on information technology executives.