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____/ The Ghost In The Machine on Wednesday 16 July 2008 18:19 : \____
> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Homer
> <usenet@xxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote
> on Wed, 16 Jul 2008 04:29:37 +0100
> <1i60l5-356.ln1@xxxxxxxxxx>:
>> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>>
>>> With a Microsoft thug heading VMWare now (because EMC is Microsoft's
>>> Partner of the Year), it might be worth expecting a Novell-like
>>> no-compete deal. That's what they did with Xen using The Citrix Proxy
>>> (another Microsoft Partner of the Year).
>
> "No-compete" deal?
>
> Uh...who's heading the QEMU effort? Is there a foxhole nearby?
> Will Google step in? (The Android emulator depends on QEMU.)
I installed it a couple of days ago (it's on the repo) and took some CDs for a
spin. Something tells me that VMWare's software is far ahead. Microsoft's
trouble in /datacentres/ is VMWare, Xen, and Virtual Iron (which is already
shouting at Xentrix' direction for abandoning its contributors).
>> Embrace, extend, extinguish. Microsoft's "innovation" at its finest.
>>
>
> Yeppers. After all, never mind such issues as fair play
> and competition. Can't have that.
Not in a 'free'* market. "Let the folks from Redmond innovate," a certain
dictator would say.
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*as in "Free to abuse", create Trusts; nothing to do with libre in the
traditional sense. More like "Land of the Free Riders".
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~~ Best of wishes
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