[Gllug] Microsoft announces deals with Lynux !

[paul at ma1.se]

John Hearns wrote:
> RMS will be spinning in his grave. But he's not dead yet.
> 

Quote from here:

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20061102175508403

“As a result of this collaboration, customers will now be able to run 
virtualized Linux on Windows or virtualized Windows on Linux,” said Jeff 
Jaffe, executive vice president and chief technology officer at Novell."

News to me. You can anyway. Been doing it for years :/

But what is the impact on the "community?" People who write and 
contribute "free" code under the GPL and this ends up in a distribution, 
with Microsoft getting a share of the proceeds.

Regards

Paul Lee
www.ma1.se
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