Linux vendors and Microsoft follow the money
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| Novell's recently unpopular chief executive was doing more than reading from
| a crudely scripted speech when he told LinuxWorld to get with the program and
| deal with Microsoft and mixed source.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/10/microsoft_open_source/
And here they invade to expo to present anti-Linux messages or at least snatch
developers:
Did LinuxWorld survive Microsoft's Mike Hall?
http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS9433653049.html
Here's the Linux Foundation doing its stupid thing:
Linux-Microsoft Lovefest at LinuxWorld Expo
http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=1309
And someone responds:
It's not about Windows, dammit!
http://beranger.org/index.php?page=diary&2007/08/09/15/15/54-it-s-not-about-windows-dammit-
Time for a Free Software Business Initiative
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| This is the reason why FSF decided not to support the Open Source Initiative
| nor its apparently apolitical philosophy to this day. Their prime goal was
| promoting exactly what Open Source was essentially demoting.
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http://www.libervis.com/article/time_for_a_free_software_business_initiative
Related:
LinuxWorld this year:
Microsoft Says No Windows Virtualization on Top of Linux
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| Microsoft will not allow Windows Vista or Windows XP to be virtualized on top
| of Linux, Sam Ramji, the director of Microsoft's open-source software lab,
| said at the annual LinuxWorld Conference and Expo here Aug. 7.
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2168183,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594
LinuxWorld last year:
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| Microsoft's appearance was an unexpected highlight. I half expected
| to be inundated by Microsoft messaging and materials about what
| Microsoft is doing with Novell. Instead, the Redmondites just
| mingled with the open sourcers, chatting them up about what
| they thought about the show and, of course, Microsoft.
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http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3660541
"Microsoft seems to have hijacked Linux Asia"
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| Was the general feel amongst the attendees at Linux Asia 2007;
| MS however, just wanted to say ''let us walk hand-in-hand''
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http://www.ciol.com/content/developer/Linux/2007/107020104.asp
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