Xandros Takes Microsoft Patent Deal
Xandros segue le orme di Novell. di seguito la petizione proposta da http://techp.org/p/4
Xandros Takes Microsoft Patent Deal
The Xandros distribution of Linux has entered into a patent deal with Microsoft similar to that of Novell.
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For those who have never heard of Xandros (which will be a lot of you), it's a commercial distribution descended from Corel's Linux system, funded by the same VCs that funded Ximian, and derived from Debian at one point, although I don't know how much comes from there any longer. They've been around a long time, although for obvious reasons I can't believe they are very successful.
They took the money that Microsoft offered. That's really all the news there is here - that Microsoft found another foundering commercial Linux distribution willing to sign up to the patent covenant and give it publicity. The technical aspects are irrelevant, as they indeed are in the Novell deal. Xandros is a little fish without significant technology to offer. Even in the case of Novell, nobody needed Microsoft's help with virtualization - the only thing Microsoft can offer is the slight performance increment of paravirtualization for Windows over the full virtualization that is available now.
There's not much to do about Xandros. They aren't a big player, this isn't going to make them into one. We should turn away from them as was the case with Novell, but it seems a bit silly since most of us didn't even know they existed.
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