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What the Microsoft/Xandros deal means for Linux
linux-watch.com — While Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth compared Microsoft's patents deals to racketeering, he also admited: "I'd love to work with Microsoft. It's not an evil empire. It's just a company that is efficiently grounded in the 1980s."
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- schestowitz, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1,----[ Quote ]
| Warming up to his theme, Woodford continued, "So far Microsoft
| hasn't revealed any legitimate claims of intellectual property
| infringement. Their strategy appears to be to coerce weak
| players in the Open Source space to fold. This is reminiscent
| of the play made by SCO a few years ago, which some say was
| financed by Microsoft. Maybe that was just their trial run."
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| Then, he launches his main assault on the partnership, "I'm
| reminded of Neville Chamberlain waiving his agreement with Hitler
| in the air and declaring peace in his time. Linux vendors should
| be reminded that, if you give your lunch money to a bully, the
| bully does not go away. Who will have the cohones to just say
| no? The Linux community may not like the answer, but the only
| name that comes to mind is -- Larry Ellison."
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See the comparisons here: SCO (McBride), that guy with the mustache, and Mr. Yacht. It figures.
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