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How to Kill Linux

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| While chatting over dinner with the executives of a middleware company during 
| the recent RSA conference for encryption and security in San Francisco, I 
| heard about a secret project. It concerned the development of a version of 
| Linux that runs smoothly as a task under Windows. The project was completed 
| and then shelved. Whether it will ever reemerge is doubtful, but it does 
| offer some interesting possibilities and hints as to what Microsoft may be up 
| to with MS-Linux.      
| 
| [...]
| 
| If Microsoft actually produced an MS-Linux that was the standard Linux 
| attached to the driver layer of Windows, giving users full Plug and Play 
| (PnP) support of all their peripherals, nobody would buy any other Linux on 
| the market. Well, except for the fact that Microsoft would be unable to 
| produce such a product without allowing the other vendors access to the 
| driver code as part of the open-source Linux license arrangement (GPL). You 
| can be sure that Microsoft lawyers are studying this as closely as possible 
| to see if there is any way they could market a dominant Linux distribution 
| without killing themselves. So how could they do this?        
| 
| Open-source law is new and not completely tested. I'm certain that Microsoft 
| got involved with the SCO versus Linux lawsuit partly to reach a better 
| understanding of how to proceed.  
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http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2704,1768170,00.asp

Microsoft has SUSE now.


Recent:

Windows Explorer in Opensuse Installer

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| Seems Novell and Microsoft are working VERY closely together.
| Look at the explorer window in Opensuse' installation. Doesn't it look 
| familiar? 
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http://paulsdigitalworld.blogspot.com/2008/01/windows-explorer-in-opensuse.html
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