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An Open Letter to Steve Ballmer

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François Bancilhon
Nov 1, 2007

“Dear Steve,

“Hi, this is François, from Mandriva.

“I’m sure we’re way too small for you to know me. You know,
we’re one of these tiny Linux company working hard for our place on
the market. We produce a Linux Distro, Mandriva Linux. The last
edition, Mandriva 2008 was seen as a pretty good version and we’re
proud of it. You should give it a spin, I’m sure you’d like it. We
also happen to be one of the Linux companies that did not sign an
agreement with your company (nobody’s perfect)…”


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