Citation Microsoft Corp.'s Windows operating-system chief, Jim Allchin, says that freely distributed software code such as rival Linux could stifle innovation and that legislators need to understand the threat. news.cnet.com/investor/news/newsitem/0-9900-1028-4825719-RHAT.html?tag=ltnc www.userfriendly.org/cartoons/archives/01feb/20010216.html