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Last time I blogged about the Microsoft/Xandros deal, but since then, Linspire also got itself hitched with the monopolist.
It’s really too bad that the business oriented Linux providers are one by one falling into Microsofts play-pen. First Novell, then Xandros, Linspire and some other non-Linux related ones, i.e. LG and Samsung.
The big Linux server provider Red Hat is not even considering Microsoft’s advances and neither is Ubuntu, as Mark Shuttleworth stated. As I’m using Ubuntu at the moment, I feel pretty safe but have no qualms whatsoever about moving to another distro if Ubuntu goes that way too.
I have no doubt that Microsoft is in for a big surprise soon, if the Linux community starts uniting to fight the enemy and not themselves.
So Microsoft, consider yourself warned!
LinuxWatch, LinuxWorld and Jeremy’s Blog all show diffirent bits of info on the Microsoft/Xandors deal, for “intellectual property assurance that Microsoft will provide patent covenants for Xandros Linux customers, along the lines of the recent Microsoft/Novell deal”.
“Xandros CEO Andreas Typaldos said Thursday his company did not agree that its Linux distribution violates any Microsoft patents”.
Looks like Xandros is going the same way as Novell, let’s just hope that others such as Mandriva and other comercial Linux vendors don’t follow suit. In the words of Jeremy: it should be interesting to see how the community responds to this one.
