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Hyper-V: Microsoft Virus (and Tax) Inside GNU/Linux

Planted by Novell, used by Microsoft

Bacteria



Summary: Microsoft PR, along with Microsoft proponents masquerading as journalists, promote Microsoft's latest manoeuvre whose purpose to extract money out of GNU/Linux in China

YESTERDAY we wrote about Novell's role in the Hyper-V infestation, which Novell was paid hundreds of millions to help advance. A lot of people may no longer remember how it came about, but we sure documented this over the years.



In its embrace-and-extend-like fashion, Microsoft currently uses what the now-defunct Novell helped create as a departure gift for Microsoft. Novell used to work hard for GNU/Linux tax (through SUSE) in China. But Microsoft has just announced in a press release that it will "help sell Hyper-V infused Linux distro in China," says a Linux site. This was mostly covered by Microsoft boosters like Scott Fulton, IDG, and Mary Jo Foley who called it “legal covenant agreement” (as in patents too?). "Microsoft has signed a “legal covenant agreement” with Linux operating system provider China Standard Software Co. Ltd. (CS2C)," writes the Microsoft booster and other Microsoft proponents (e.g. Gates-funded Seattle Times which boosts Microsoft all the time) did the same thing to make it seem like Microsoft is a friend of GNU/Linux when it fact it's working to tax GNU/Linux, thanks to the seminal work from Novell.

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