Microsoft and Linux distributor Xandros on June 4 signed a broad set of collaboration and patent agreements that reminded many of the November 2006 Microsoft/Novell partnership. What do analysts and other Linux vendors think this new deal means for Linux? While the FSF (Free Software Foundation) has tried to block such patent deals with the [...]
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What the Microsoft/Xandros deal means for Linux
June 11th, 2007 · Comments Off
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Oracle’s Red Hat rip-off
October 25th, 2006 · Comments Off
No one saw this coming. People talked about Oracle making its own Linux, or buying a Linux company (Ubuntu?). But, the news that Oracle is erasing Red Hat’s trademarks from Unbreakable Linux and supporting it for less than Red Hat is a bolt from the blue. Or, perhaps, I should say that Oracle is firing [...]
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