Microsoft-SuSE: little more than a protection racket shakedown. You know, from the moment I saw Steve Ballmer I was never able to shake the impression that, unlike, say, Gates or Allen, who were geniuses in their own right, Ballmer was more of a frat boy, the strip-club going, parasitical street thug. And now the thug is telling people “nice business you have, would be a shame if anything happened to it.” You can cower and pay him for ‘protection’, or you can kick him in the bollocks. Choose wisely and vote with your feet, I say.