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• LinuxIsFun

  2008-04-18 12:10:59

  I dont know why Redhat abandoned their desktop idea. This is affect their enterprise integration. Maybe they might do it with fedora on desktop and rhel on server. Who knows. The new ceo seems to be very focused on what their target market is...cool in a way.

• Roy Schestowitz

  2008-04-18 12:19:11

  Not so long ago he responded to a question from Chris Pirillo. He was asked about Ubuntu, IIRC, to which his reply was (via his PA) something along the lines of: "Ubuntu doesn't check carefully the legality of obtaining codecs." I continue to suspect that codecs were the main barrier, but Fedora, being a community distro, does not have the financial barriers (just more hoops to jump through although CodecBuddy recently got the boot).
  
  It's true that Ubuntu takes shortcuts.

• LinuxIsFun

  2008-04-18 12:58:47

  yeah they are a traded company. will be suicide for them to do something illegal and face patent suits. They don't have the money or resources to fight them. Still a small company.
  
  Ubuntu being a foundation doesnt have to worry much about such things. No one is going to sue them for money anyways.

• CoolGuy

  2008-04-18 15:33:34

  Please spread the message...
  
  Microsoft will be signing up Malayalam movie star Mammootty as one of the brand ambassadors for the Computer Literacy programme that is to be organized soon in Kerala, a Southern Indian State well known for its pro-free software policies.
  
  Read, Sign and Share the letter at http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Open_Letter_To_Mammooty
  
  Also digg the story http://digg.com/microsoft/Mammooty_don_t_join_hands_with_Microsoft
  
  Vote the story http://www.fsdaily.com/Community/Open_Letter_To_Mammooty

• CoolGuy

  2008-04-18 15:52:26

  M$ brand image going down like a rock thrown in a sea.
  
  This is going to get worse each passing day.
  
  Sweeet revenge :D

• Roy Schestowitz

  2008-04-18 20:06:51

  Microsoft has tried all sort of freebies in Kerala in order to suppress FOSS adoption. How far will this company go? I can give examples from the press.
  
  Then there's the "Unlimited [Addiction] Potential" program whose role is to identify places where Linux is taking off and then to dump free (gratis) software and sometimes even hardware to suppress the competition. They pretend to be charitable, but it's more of an anti-Linux squad if there was such a thing...
  
  Thanks for the headsup. Dugg.