Now that makes a lot of sense

Story: Why Microsoft won't fight moblinTotal Replies: 4
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tracyanne

Sep 28, 2009
6:41 PM EDT
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qcimushroom

Sep 28, 2009
7:44 PM EDT
With Microsoft's reputation on security, I do not like the idea of running any binary only package supplied by Microsoft.
tracyanne

Sep 28, 2009
8:22 PM EDT
But they aren't marketing the stuff to you.
tracyanne

Sep 28, 2009
8:24 PM EDT
This probably goes a long way to explaining a lot about the reason that many other corporates are reluctant to market Linux as anything other than a Device, and why our "friends" at IBM never pushed Linux, or even made Linux comfortable, on their computers.
techiem2

Sep 28, 2009
9:54 PM EDT
Interesting Although I'm really not sure about:

Quoting:For the past 20 years Microsoft and Intel have been the best of friends:


Somehow I have a hard time thinking that a best friend would force me into stopping development of something just because it might help his competition.... (in reference to MS forcing Intel to stop NSP development) - http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20090421111327711 Yeah, "best of friends" indeed...

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