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Re: [News] Mandriva Interview and Good Review in DistroWatch Weekly and Elsewhere

____/ Kier on Wednesday 24 October 2007 09:19 : \____

> On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 03:38:55 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> 
>> ____/ Kier on Tuesday 23 October 2007 22:53 : \____
>> 
>>> On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 13:52:16 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>> 
>>>> ____/ Kier on Tuesday 23 October 2007 11:05 : \____
>>>> 
>>>>> The new release looks extremely good. Mandriva seems to be getting back
>>>>> on track at last.
>>>> 
>>>> Yes, it seems so as well, almost everywhere you turn. Adam, who is the
>>>> community leader, is running around promoting Mandriva 2008, but it's hard
>>>> to compete against millions of Ubuntu fans that take over the Linux news.
>>>> Nothing wrong with that, by the way, but it becomes a tough battle for
>>>> visibility. Ubuntu gets a lot of attention.
>>> 
>>> True, and it will be hard for Mandriva to make up that lost ground. But
>>> the distro did have a lot of fans at one time, so it stands a chance, IMO,
>>> provided the developers keep up the good work they've been doing recently.
>>  
>> They've just set the Club free. Also, they got some contracts recently. It's
>> probably Microsoft's rotten moves in Europe, possible lawsuits by proxy,
>> FUD, and even patent deals that do the most damage to Mandriva adoption.
>> They have stooped pretty law and their actions are probably illegal. The US
>> DoJ doesn't give a flying f* because it's occupied by lobbyists, insiders,
>> and administration people that "save the economy". There's a lot of
>> corruption involved and it's a complex thing. Those who deny this just don't
>> know enough.
> 
> Mandriva were responsible for their own problems, not MS. Blaming MS for
> every problem Linux has of its own making is a fool's cop-out.

From: Bill Gates
Sent: Sunday, January 24, 1999 8:41 AM
To: Jeff Westorinen; Ben Fathi
Cc: Carl Stork (Exchange); Nathan Myhrvold; Eric Rudder
Subject: ACPI extensions

One thing I find myself wondering about is whether we shouldn't try
and make the "ACPI" extensions som

It seems unfortunate if we do this work and get our partners to do the
work and the results is that Linux w

Maybe there is no way to avoid this problem but it does bother me.

Maybe we could define the APIs so that they work well with NT and not
the others even if they are open.

Or maybe we could patent something related to this.

http://edge-op.org/iowa/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/3000/px03020.pdf

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