Microsoft Shows Up in Full Force at LinuxCon

Aug 21, 2015, 12:00 (0 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Sean Michael Kerner)

The vitriol against Microsoft in the Linux community, however, isn't entirely gone. When Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation, held up a Microsoft Tux penguin during a keynote session on Aug. 18, he was actually heckled. "Don't hold it [the Microsoft penguin]," an audience member shouted. "You might get cancer."

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