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by dllthomas 4073 days ago
"After a year and a half of public consultation, thousands of comments, and four drafts, version 3 of the GNU General Public License (GPLv3) was finally published on June 29, 2007."

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/quick-guide-gplv3.html

Regardless of what one thinks about GPLv3, Ballmer could not possibly have been talking about it in 2001.