Tell Xandros How You Feel, If You Have Time
- Shane Coyle
- 2007-06-05 05:47:25 UTC
- Modified: 2007-06-05 06:00:25 UTC
Bruce Perens has posted a new
petition for the Xandrosoft deal, please feel free to sign in and make your feelings known. Somehow, I don't think that this will get the
groundswell of response that Novell's sellout had.
I actually kinda feel bad about that, since
we also have decided that we cannot dedicate enough time or effort to an entire boycottxandros.com website; it's like
in Heathers when Martha "Dumptruck" can't even get attention by trying to commit suicide, which Xandros has essentially done. Kinda sad, really.
For those who have never heard of Xandros (which will be a lot of you), it's a commercial distribution descended from Corel's Linux system, funded by the same VCs that funded Ximian, and derived from Debian at one point, although I don't know how much comes from there any longer. They've been around a long time, although for obvious reasons I can't believe they are very successful.
...
There's not much to do about Xandros. They aren't a big player, this isn't going to make them into one. We should turn away from them as was the case with Novell, but it seems a bit silly since most of us didn't even know they existed.
So, Boycott Xandros!
Wow, that was easy.
Comments
Roy Schestowitz
2007-06-05 08:08:05
http://forums.xandros.com/viewtopic.php?t=31422 "Xandros = Microsoft, Which Linux To Use Now?"
Will this be censored?
gpl1
2007-06-05 08:18:35
Roy Schestowitz
2007-06-05 09:29:00