Re: Linux-2.1.125 ... pre-2.2 imminent

Henning P. Schmiedehausen (hps@tanstaafl.de)
13 Oct 1998 11:18:24 +0200

aaronl@vitelus.com (Aaron Lehmann) writes:

>What if micro$not makes a linux distribution and MS Office and markets
>them to the windoze community? 75% of the linux users would be using only
>microsnot bloatware which of course would be commercial. linux would no
>longer be thought of as free, and no one would use any other distribution
>becasue microsnot would prevent their apps from working on another.

This would be force-bundling of Apps with the OS and it is the exact
reason why they're under fire from the US DoJ.

They're much more clever than that.

Kind regards
Henning

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