Comments on: Linspire Joins Microsoft’s Any One But Red Hat Group

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Open Warrior » Blog Archive » microsoft/linspire deal — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 18:43:43 +0000

[...] The deal, like Novell and Xandros before it includes office document compatibility, instant messaging interoperability and collaboration on digital media. Again the big ticket part of the deal inlcudes patent covenants from Microsoft for customers operating the Linspire desktop. http://www.tech...-red-hat-group/ [...]

By: Kevin Burton

Kevin Burton — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 01:16:52 +0000

Wow…. big win for the 15 people using Linspire.

By: Metagg

Metagg — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 21:48:23 +0000

@Smith288 (#11)

And luck, don’t forget luck…-Metagg

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Blog.Lejer.Ro - Bloggers Heaven — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 20:27:26 +0000

Microsoft and Linspire Collaboration…

Today Microsoft Corp. and Linux desktop provider Linspire Inc. announced a broad interoperability, technical collaboration that also includes intellectual property assurances. The agreement promotes customer choice and strengthens the bridge between th…

By: Drew

Drew — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 20:19:24 +0000

As much as the open source community doesn’t like the sound of Microsoft and Linux distributors working together, this really is a great move for the open source community. It allows easier transitions to those that have always been scared to try Linux and stick with Windows to actually install and give it a run. Dual-booting Linux with Windows with NTFS and EXT support between both is very powerful, working together they may bring more to the table.

By: Richard Corsale

Richard Corsale — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 19:15:45 +0000

please put up a captcha

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By: quux

quux — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 17:17:05 +0000

Portraying this as ‘anyone but RedHat’ is dishonest. MS has made it clear that such a deal with RedHat would be welcome. RedHat has vociferously declined the possibility.

http://www.ewee...,2059675,00.asp

By: Rishi

Rishi — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 17:17:03 +0000

Why is it that the opensource Cooperate world is so divided that companies that were designed to defeat the MS Monopoly are actually joining it, just to compete with other opensource companies?

Perhaps I’m missing something, but Linspire is the same company that designed and popularized a free version of Lindows, and now its joining Microsoft Windows?

By: whoopee

whoopee — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 17:16:12 +0000

redhat shouldn’t lose much sleep

xandros, novell, linspire….??

were it not for this deal, novell might already be dead

xandros and linspire are bit players, not even that. xandros doesn’t even compete with freebsd. now were ms to talk to canonical (ubuntu), that would raise concerns

redhat will have to deal with this challenge, but the fact remains that they are the only serious corporate linux solution, their ownership of the market is not in question. only canonical represents a real challenge to redhat at this point

by the way from most of the comments here, its clear none of you really know what the hell is going on in the linux market.

By: Clint Brothers

Clint Brothers — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 15:50:03 +0000

What will Microsux try after this, they couldn’t possibly get all distros to sign up??? BSD??? Next thing you know M$, Microsux, Mister Softy will say they have IP on the whole concept of Open Source and any one who is in the Open Source community.

By: constructicle boy

constructicle boy — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 15:28:45 +0000

microsoft is smart.or else why the richest man in the world co-owns it?

By: Satish

Satish — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 14:39:35 +0000

Woot.

By: Concrete Stain

Concrete Stain — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 14:17:10 +0000

So I’m thinking /

– about developing a competitor to MS Windows

– Then I will have to be #2 not #1 or close to a competitor

– then MS will – give me a partnership deal

By: Smith288

Smith288 — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 13:30:59 +0000

I love when people call Microsoft “M$”.

How utterly and completely immature.

Face it, Microsoft has turned itself into a billion dollar company by savvy business moves, smart marketing and strategic acquisitions.

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 13:29:35 +0000

What’s even weirder is that Microsoft could port whatever applications they want to Linux, as user-space applications, and actually SELL THEM (thus generating income). Then set up deals with (for example) Dell to bundle the Linux version of Windows Media Player and Microsoft Office with all copies of whatever version of Linux Dell is putting on computers (like they do for other applications). This would further Microsoft’s lock-in cross platform, and lock-in to MS Office is their bread and butter. Absolutely nothing is stopping them from doing this, and what they are doing now with these deals and patent posturing just makes them look like bad guys and bullies and doesn’t actually build any good will, show innovation or competition at all. It’s just bad business, it seems.

By: Rajeev

Rajeev — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 13:01:21 +0000

Any interoperability is welcome.
Say what.

By: Richard Corsale

Richard Corsale — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 12:53:17 +0000

divide and conquer… its sooo “art of war” its actualy cliche. What I’m trying to figure out exactly is: what the death of the largest Linux distributor could possibly do to help these guys gain market share. Its the overall Linux market that they get their respecitve “slice” from…. so … stifling the market by joining an MS FUD campaign would deminish overall demand for Linux, which would help..? hmm

– Lindows / MS history 101
Don’t forget, Lindows it was the first version of Linspire untill MS sued for the trademark infringement. Claiming that it would confuse customers. and it was thrown out of US court. The word windows is used in over 20 trijillion diffrent software products, so it was undefended. Then they appealed , and again and again and filed in a eu court … and finally Lindows realized, they were getting sued out of business by the legal juggernaut. and so linspire was born.