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Microsoft’s Quiet War Against GNU/Linux on Motherboards

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Roy Schestowitz
May 16, 2008

“One exciting recent bit of news is all about Asustek extending
the reach of Splashtop and putting it on pretty much every
motherboard. This means that tens of millions of PCs are expected
to have Linux installed down at the core, essentially (yet
arguably) running it as the ‘default’ operating system.

“As rudimentary as Splashtop may be at the moment, this could be
the start of something greater that will be extended and improved
over time…”

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