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:Microsoft's Next Partners: Mandriva and TurboLinux
Microsoft's Next Partners: Mandriva and TurboLinux
Jun 16, 2007, 08 :00 UTC (6 Talkback[s]) (11552 reads)

[ Thanks to Jan Stedehouder for this link. ]

"Microsoft is on the march. Novell, Xandros, Linspire, hiring Tom Hanrahan straight from the Open Source Development Labs. There should be no doubt that Microsoft has a strategy to... Yes, to do what to Linux? Did the Redmond Mogul finally realize that Linux is a worthy partner for the future and is it now investing in strategic partners to guarantee a slice of the future market? Or is this a repetition of the old browser wars with the embrace, extend and make extinct strategy and will the Linux world end up empty handed?

"The first agreement with Novell was met with mixed feelings. Novell will have the honor of being embedded in the GPL 3 with it's own clause..."

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  Talkback(s) Name  and Date
MS want to break Free Software, isolate  ...   It's coming closer   
maba
Jun 16, 2007, 10:53:17
 
Microsoft failed in its attempt to use S ...   Interoperability   
Don Whitbeck
Jun 16, 2007, 11:31:44
 
Trusting MS with anything is a lesson in ...   MS is playing nice   
paul
Jun 16, 2007, 16:59:44
 
Notice that Microsoft has only one "big" ...   Scraps   
GH
Jun 16, 2007, 18:30:31
 
(Got up early this morning and couldn&#3 ...   Re: Interoperability   
Don Whitbeck
Jun 16, 2007, 19:16:17
 
Microsoft, did you catch what I just sai ...   MS is changing... for the better   
Cash
Jun 17, 2007, 05:17:32
 
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