In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Mark Kent
<mark.kent@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote
on Thu, 9 Aug 2007 10:06:24 +0100
<g12ro4-8ok.ln1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> Microsoft Says No Windows Virtualization on Top of Linux
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>| Microsoft will not allow Windows Vista or Windows XP to be virtualized on top
>>| of Linux, Sam Ramji, the director of Microsoft's open-source software lab,
>>| said at the annual LinuxWorld Conference and Expo here Aug. 7.
>> `----
>>
>> http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2168183,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594
>>
>> Evil.
>>
>> http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/2229/screenshotxk2.png
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>
> Why would they care? If they're getting paid, surely it doesn't matter.
> Their strategy looks more and more confused each day.
>
Ah, but it does. In virtual PCs one cannot have Palladium,
allowing for the ultimate in (financial) security by
disallowing execution of unauthorized (by Microsoft)
programs.
Can't be too careful with all of that open/freeware/Linux
source code. :-) It might lead to decreased revenue,
elimination of the monopoly, and destruction of
civilization as we know it.
(Well, 2 out of the 3, anyway.)
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