Something of a repeat of the Novell deal; Xandros signed up for the protection racket too. Read more at Groklaw. Xandros forum users aren’t happy; those emigrating away from the now-MS-approved distro tend to prefer PCLinuxOS or Ubuntu.
Bonus links: John McCain is insane ;) and Microsoft threatens one of its MVPs.
Update: WTF?!?
[Xandros CEO Andreas Typaldos] told Network World that at no time did Microsoft reveal to Xandros, which develops Linux desktops, servers and management tools, any of the 235 patents that Microsoft says Linux violates.
Can anyone seriously claim that MS *isn’t* running a protection racket?
November 13, 2007 at 12:48 am |
[...] now just another ‘loser distro’ Following the lead of SUSE, Xandros and Linspire, Turbolinux has decided to hop on the ‘Loser Distro’ bandwagon. Again, [...]
December 16, 2007 at 2:49 am |
[...] weep a little bit that the Eee PC runs a version of Xandros (which it will be rememberd, signed a patent deal with M$) as that means I won’t be buying one. Maybe I should contact Asus and see if I can get one [...]
May 9, 2008 at 3:43 am |
[...] Asus has had very good sales of their EeePC; they’re cute little devices, but while they run Linux, their distro is a Xandros derivative and I won’t support that (here’s why) [...]