“Mark Shuttleworth has developed an exceptional Linux
distribution, Ubuntu. Mark spends much of his time, however,
deriding Red Hat, his biggest Linux competitor, for waxing
proprietary.“Funny, considering that it’s Mark that is embracing proprietary
software–true proprietary software, mind you–with his Linspire
deal. eWeek is reporting that analysts love the deal, for all the
reasons that Mark probably would prefer they didn’t (or, at least,
didn’t talk about), given his sometime penchant for talking up free
source…”
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