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:What the Microsoft/Xandros Deal Means for Linux

What the Microsoft/Xandros Deal Means for Linux
Jun 12, 2007, 15 :45 UTC (5 Talkback[s]) (6745 reads)
(Other stories by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols)

"Microsoft and Linux distributor Xandros on June 4 signed a broad set of collaboration and patent agreements that reminded many of the November 2006 Microsoft/Novell partnership. What do analysts and other Linux vendors think this new deal means for Linux?
"While the FSF (Free Software Foundation) has tried to block such patent deals with the latest version of the GPLv3, Microsoft and Xandros didn't let that legal objective stop them.
"Now that the deal is in place, the question is, 'What to make of it...?'

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