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[News] Shuttleworth: Linux is the Operating System of the Future

Mark Shuttleworth: Linux is the Future (Interview)

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| Microsoft is trying to control Linux with various license restrictions.
| I don't think there won?t be a positive outcome from this and once
| day the Microsoft-Novell union will collapse. Every day interest to
| Linux is growing, that is very good. And as I said, all facts and
| events are showing that Linux is the operating system of the Future.
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http://www.youtux.org/content/view/186/2/


Microsoft in 'panic mode':

Microsoft 'killed Dell Linux' - States

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| The States' remedy hearing opened in DC yesterday, and States attorney
| Steven Kuney produced a devastating memo from Kempin, then in charge of
| Microsoft's OEM business, written after Judge Jackson had ordered his
| break-up of the company. Kempin raises the possibility of threatening
| Dell and other PC builders which promote Linux.
|
| "I'm thinking of hitting the OEMs harder than in the past with anti-Linux.
| ... they should do a delicate dance," Kempin wrote to Ballmer, in what is
| sure to be a memorable addition to the phrases ("knife the baby", "cut off
| the air supply") with which Microsoft enriched the English language in the
| first trial. Unlike those two, this is not contested.
|
| [...]
|
| Earlier memos described that it was "untenable" that a key Microsoft
| partner was promoting Linux. Kuney revealed that Dell disbanded its Linux
| business unit in early 2001. Dell quietly pulled Linux from its desktop PCs
| in the summer of 2001, IDG's Ashlee Vance discovered subsequently, six
| months after we heard Michael Dell declare his love of Linux on the desktop
| the previous winter.
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| Compaq was also mentioned in other memos, with Microsoft taking the line
| that OEMs should "meet demand but not help create demand" for Linux.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/03/19/microsoft_killed_dell_linux_states/

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