Tech Time Warp of the Week: Watch Steve Ballmer Mock Linux While Dressed as *The Matrix'*s Neo

Microsoft has learned to stop worrying and love the Linux open source operating system---at least to a certain extent. Witness this Microsoft video from the year 2003, in which Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer make fun of Linux while, um, dressed as characters from The Matrix. In the video, then Microsoft CEO Ballmer has morphed into "Steve-o"---a bald, paunchy version of Neo, that hunky hacker from The Matrix movies who works to save humanity from virtual reality. Just a year after its Matrix spoof, Microsoft called on Linux man Bill Hilf to lead its open-source software lab, where he and his team explored way of dovetailing Microsoft tools with Linux.