Reluctantly enough, several months ago we included an embedded video where Xandros products get shot (yes, literally). The days of SCO are numbered and it now turns out that a similar type of video exists for SCO's Linux. In case you're interested, here it is.
Ouch! This sits on the verge of violent content (and nothing that we endorse).
Will Xandros et al ever receive treatment which is similar to SCO's? That seems unlikely because the immediate reaction did not go as far as DDOS attacks. However, one thing to be aware of is that the Asus Eee, which will be released next month, runs a variant of Xandros and it should therefore be avoided.
Keep your hand off products that give credibility to arguments that patent tax needs to be paid to Microsoft, for unsubstantiated FUD and some payola. "Payola," you ask? Yes, indeed. Linux companies received money from Microsoft, rather than paid Microsoft. They were paid to support a divide-and-conquer strategy, so it's a short-term loss for Microsoft and a long-term loss for Linux.
Some problems will end if distributors who sold out are shunned.
Comments
Steve Ballmer
2007-09-24 15:38:55
You guys are nuts!
Get my freakin picture off your page!
Roy Schestowitz
2007-09-24 19:18:58
Welcome, fake Steve. How about bringing the Lyons shill (Fake Steve Jobs) as well? He wrote about our site before, but he never gets off his high horse.
If the Web gets polluted or flooded by slopfarms such as these, and Slashdot then sends traffic so these slopfarms (Slashdot probably doesn't do this intentionally), then real writers with real knowledge of GNU/Linux will lose the spark for publishing
Those of us who actually want to reform the industry and put users in control of their systems/devices will recognise that "Open Source" was selling a lie or got-co-opted by liars
The commercial exploitation of users won't stop until users exercise full control over their software or - more broadly - their computing (including data)
Comments
Steve Ballmer
2007-09-24 15:38:55
Roy Schestowitz
2007-09-24 19:18:58