[Gllug] My god that Mark Shuttleworth gets everywhere

[Alain Williams]

On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 10:22:08AM +0100, Bernard Peek wrote:
> On 12/07/11 10:08, John G Walker wrote:
> > I wouldn't be entirely surprised if Microsoft suddenly announced it was
> > going to produce its own distro,
> >
> 
> Xenix?
> 
> Actually, based on past experience I'd say that it is quite likely that
> Microsoft will offer a UNIX-like OS shortly (Embrace, Extend,
> Extinguish.) It won't be Linux though because I'm sure that they would
> use their own kernel.

Doesn't GPL 3 go on about patent trolls and stop useage by them.
How many (significant) projects are under GPL 3 -- I know that the kernel isn't.

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