04.06.08

Links 06/04/2008: Fedora 9 w/ KDE4; Ubuntu Mobile Preview

Posted in News Roundup at 10:28 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

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grendel baggins said,

April 6, 2008 at 11:42 pm

Just curious if you remember hearing about this a few years ago:

http://www.theinquirer.net/en/inquirer/news/2003/08/07/windows-is-microsofts–trojan-horse

Aside from the main focus of the article, which I’m also curious if you remember reading about, here you go:

“Early this year, Microsoft snagged Connectix VM technology, which was one of the few products that allowed OS/2 users to run 32-bit Windows operating systems in a window under OS/2, effectivelly killing its OS/2-based windows virtualisation product, called Virtual PC 5.1 for OS/2. Without a product to sell, its CEO admitted that would close.”

Hmmm?
Roy Schestowitz said,

April 7, 2008 at 12:01 am

They try similar tricks against GNU/Linux. First of all, see the Corel story, which is summarised here:

http://boycottnovell.com/2008/02/25/corel-is-microsoft-friend/

Microsoft also ‘brought’ Xen via Citrix. Citrix seems very disinterested in Xen virtualisation, even openly (it said “we are not a virtualisation company”, IIRC). It claims that it spent $0.5 billion for the brand name (of a company with about 1000 paying customers). We wrote a lot about this before and we recently posted this one:

http://boycottnovell.com/2008/02/27/xen-windows-citrix/

This pattern is familiar. Microsoft buys companies in order to shut them down or change their goals.

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