Microsoft signs up Xandros

Conrad Knauer atheoi at gmail.com
Tue Jun 5 08:38:40 BST 2007


On 6/5/07, Jerome Gotangco <jgotangco at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> Are we seeing an emerging business for MS? Most probably.

<cynic>
http://limulus.wordpress.com/2007/05/15/microsofts-new-business-model-extortion/
</cynic>

> If they get to sign one more known commercial distro developer then its a trend ;-)

Red Hat has already said no, so who's left?
Mandriva, Mepis, Turbolinux and Linspire?  (Did I miss any?)

Ah well, some people said there were too many distros out there; I
strongly suspect that this sort of deal is a 'kiss of death' for those
who sign them.

CK



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