Jerry McBride <mcbrides9@xxxxxxxxxxx> did eloquently scribble:
>>> What has happened is that the boiling pond has one more pike in it, which
>>> is going to make the other pike (Novell) hungrier during the short period
>>> of time before the pond boils off, killing both the pikes (GPLv3 comes
>>> into play).
>>
>> It's a small player, it does not affect the GPLv3's effectiveness, and
>> it's the software they rely on (CrossOver) that make this small company
>> weak to Microsoft's arm-bending. Nothing to see here really...
>>
> True enough. However, a loss is a loss. What should happen now is we (linux
> community) should prune this distro from the tree.
> XANDROS is DEAD... long live linux.
Someone could always fork it, not as if it's the first time. Xandros was
after all originally Corel Linux.
:)
OK, it might lose the pay-for version of crossover in the fork, but...
/me shrugs
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