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Re: [News] Shops in Brazil Sell Boxed GNU/Linux

* Rick peremptorily fired off this memo:

> On Tue, 05 Aug 2008 21:03:18 -0400, DFS wrote:
>
>> Homer wrote:
>>> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>>>
>>>>>     * Freedows 2004 Standard and Professional (does this distro
>>>>>       still even exist?)
>>>
>>> Yes, it's a commercial Brazilian disto backed by the government and the
>>> largest federal bank in Brazil:
>> 
>> Only Linux needs government backing and sometimes even legislation to
>> succeed (by OSS standards of "success" anyway).
>
> Linux had very little to do with the anti-trust action Microsoft lost in 
> the US.

In fact, Microsoft itself tried to point to Linux and say "See?
Competition!"

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