[ale] Microsoft signs latest Linux-related deal with Linspire

[Warren Myers]

Canonical *is* in South Africa, and isn't likely to be worried about an
*American* corporation...

WMM

On 6/15/07, Michael B. Trausch <michael.trausch at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  On Fri, 2007-06-15 at 10:29 -0400, James P. Kinney III wrote:
>
> A side note: RedHat has stated rather strongly that they see no need to
> participate in this line of deal making with the devil. Debian is safe
> due to no formal business setup. Is Ubuntu next on the firing line?
>
>
> I hope not.
>
> But, if so, there are many, many distributions out there.  I am surprised
> by nothing, though, and I don't put much faith in any distributor to do the
> right thing anymore.  Hopefully, Canonical will stay far, far, away from
> Microsoft in these deals.  But, just in case they don't... I suppose it
> would be back to Gentoo or Slackware for me.  Well, probably not Slackware.
> Dunno.  They haven't released 12 yet.
>
>     --- Mike
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