"After all, the first thing you learn in business is; make sure you have approval from the competition before you enter into a market."

"bah.. I'll stop randing against the article title now to go back and read the content. The title alone was worth a comment though after all; Thank God, Samsung got Microsoft's blessing before working with FOSS code."

"Or did Microsfot finally point out where Linux infringes on it's elligal patent racket when no one was looking? "

"Now do all the naysayers understand all the uproar over the Novell/Microsoft deal? And so the Microsoft tax on Linux gains more traction."

"Michael Dell does indeed claim to run Ubuntu on a home laptop. But, the linked page shows that on his home desktop, gaming laptop, work laptop and work desktop, he runs Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate. I think Microsoft will forgive him his single Linux "indiscretion", in light of the fact that he is running Windows on his four other systems."

"By the way, the Linux press was all a twitter just a couple of weeks ago about Dell's plan to sell Linux preinstalled systems. I don;t see those systems on their website so I am wondering if they came to pass or if it was more lip service from Dell."

"Has anyone seen a new Dell system with Linux preinstalled? Which distribution did they settle on?"

"Once upon a time, Microsft funded SCO to do it's dirty work (extortion, et cetera). Now that SCO is going belly-up in the courts, Microsoft is skipping the middle man, and extorting other companies (like Samsung) directly."

"Samsung doesn't develop a linux distribution for public use. They only use it internally. They're just a linux customer, just like Daimler-Chrysler, GM, or any other huge company. They don't "make" linux, they just "use" linux. Internally!!"

"Only idiots would believe billy bifocal gates. The people at Novell are idiots and the people at samsung are idiots.
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