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Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer is certainly no stranger to our CE-Oh no he didn’t! series, but Mandriva’s CEO François Bancilhon now looks to have turned the tables, with him targeting Ballmer in an open letter on his blog. Causing all his ire is a recent deal Mandriva made to install its Linux distribution onto 17,000 Classmate PCs sold to the Nigerian Government, which Nigeria says they will follow through on, only to replace the OS with Windows afterwards. Bancilhon, as you might have guessed, is laying the blame for the sudden change of heart squarely on Microsoft, and Ballmer specifically, saying “Wow! I’m impressed, Steve! What have you done for these guys to change their mind like this? It’s pretty clear to me, and it will be clear to everyone.” Bancilhon went on to ask, “How do you call what you just did Steve, in the place where you live?,” adding that, “In my place, they give it various names, I’m sure you know them.” Bancilhon then busted out the ever-reliable “how do you feel looking at yourself in the mirror in the morning?” line, before closing things off by saying, “You have the money, the power, and maybe we have a different sense of ethics you and I, but I believe that hard work, good technology and ethics can win too.”

[Via Yahoo News/PC Magazine]

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