Microsoft signs up Xandros

[Conrad Knauer]

On 6/5/07, Conrad Knauer <atheoi at gmail.com> wrote:

> > 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.

Helios made a blog post mentioning that he has some inside info on
which distro will likely be next:

http://blog.lobby4linux.com/index.php?archives/209-they-will-be-known-by-their-stripes.html

Not-so-cryptically, he says what to watch for: "If esr suddenly
announces his resignation from a particular board or organization..."

(ESR is on the Freespire board;
http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS2603651519.html)

So Linspire.  We shall see...

CK