GNU/Linux

[jmcc]

I believe that comments around Linux may increase in a way that our Free software thread may get "contaminated" with too much messages about this free (or almost free) OS. So I have created this thread to talk exclusively about GNU/Linux. And thanks to corfy for creating the free software thread

Microsoft buying Linux licenses from Novell

Some weeks ago, Microsoft paid 250 millions US$ to buy Linux licenses from Novell. According to what I have read in the press in those days, this was interpretated as a movement to debilitate the Linux community, since Novell is one of the weakest Linux distributors and so, if you give money to the least known member of a community that is trying to get users, you will distract people's attention and bring confussion to the Linux panorama. So the stronger companies can't get enough users to be a menace for another (paid) OS.

Two clips from the web around this: C|Net News.com and seattlepi.com

Edit: Take a look at this thread also. It is about WebOS, not Linux.