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excuse me, but microsoft (at least the last time i checked) HAS a distro of linux and has for many years

and quite frankly, with the amount of technoweenies here spouting all their opinions, i'm very disappointed that this escaped everyone's attention!

like, how could you not know?!

Well, Microsoft has already released Microsoft Linux.
But just like all of it's other operating systems, it's already about 3 years late.

Check it out!

we've all seen this now, right?

Oldie but goodie: MS-Linux

Clearly he's using MS Linux. It's all the rage now, haven't you heard?

From the http://www.mslinux.org/ result:

"We are now offering the MS Linux Introductory CD at a special introductory price of only $249.99 (plus shipping and handling), if you order before it ships."

Am I to assume that the word "introductory" now means "unduly expensive"?

I thought one of the major benefits of running linux is that it isn't introductory.

Or, maybe it's part of their plan to fool technology-ignorant CEOs into running Windows in their companies with: "As you can see, this so-called "linux" will cost you $249.99 per workstation for a primitive, "introductory" product, while our oh-so-advanced (and far prettier) Windows Longhorn can be had for only three easy payments of $49.95!"

from his target;

http://www.mslinux.org/ Microsoft Linux dot org

Microsoft Invades Cuba
Microsoft's plan to invade cuba and overthrow the government has succeeded. One Microsoft official said "It's a win-win situation. The US Government is happy and shuts up the DOJ while Microsoft institutes a monopoly within Cuba for everything from computer software to toilet paper. One more step closer to world domination. Heck, we could feed a whole development department for the cost of one developer's salary in the US. They may not know how to create an Operating System very well, but neither do our US developers."

Apparently these are the monkeys from the Microsoft's Monkey Colony on Mars (more info here: http://www.mslinux.org/)

http://www.mslinux.org/

yes, and TFA is wrong they're actually using MS Linux which includes the BSOD feature. Also all the operators are clad in blue body paint and if the molecule is dropped a huge blue screen falls from the sky and crushes them to death.

Why, isn't already one out there? ;)

Here!

I can't believe no one else posted this yet...

MS Linux

One day, Microsoft will market their own flavor of Linux, out of spite.

They already have: MS Linux: Shipping in November 2003.

It's a bit old (page from 2000, anouncing the release in 2003), but so is Longhorn, and so are most of SourceForge projects.

Linux all the way, supports all races, creeds, and religious rights.

http://www.lesbian.mine.nu/ -- Lesbian GNU/Linux -- Nuff said.

or

http://www.mslinux.org/ -- For those who dont want to convert, or are in the closet about their love of linux. Redneck Uneducated Tobacco Chewin types that really are gay, and just dont accept themselves typically fall into this group.

Good article from all the way back in 2004 regarding where this is actually pointed. http://www.crn.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=510 00391&flatPage=true

Would Sun rather see Linux go away? Sure, but they also believe in it enough to sell it. http://www.sun.com/servers/entry/v20z/index.jsp

These are quotes directly from they guy heading up EDS's strategic alliances. Not from members of the strategic alliance - has anyone asked Ellison if he thinks Linux is insecure, prone to unfriendly forking? Guess not. http://www.oracle.com/events/unbreakablelinux/inde x.html. Guess not.

Cisco? Well lets see they have linux running on some of their hardware, and apparently its good enough for their engineers to run http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/0216cislinux.htm l

So lets round out the list...

EMC - http://www.emc.com/products/systems/linux/index.js p
Dell - http://linux.dell.com/
Microsoft - http://www.mslinux.org/ Err, umm - ok maybe not.

Or maybe Dvorak read about it on the MS-Linux website. :)

Have you been living under a rock? MS Linux has been out since November 2003!!

They have already announced MSLinux (see http://www.mslinux.org/), it was supposed to have shipped Nov 2003, looks like it has been delayed again :)

My god... just what is that place.

I love this link on the the website you listed that refered to The University of Nigeria: Home of the Advanced Fee Methodology

This is just too good to be true...and it is.

Frankly, one of the best parody sites I have ever seen. Thank you, thank you for a good chuckle, and something I'm going to have to make sure gets spread around.

This is almost as good as the Microsoft Linux Distro Definitely a bookmark site.

Why would you want Microsoft doing anything with regards to the Linux Standards Base?

I suppose the one case compliance would be useful would be with MS Linux.

or maybe it runs MS Linux?

Look no further: Microsoft Linux

Maybe he's talking about this MS Linux effort? :-)

MS Linux already exists http://www.mslinux.org/
Been out for almost a year!!!

MS should start selling Linux

They already have. (In November 2003.)

Microsoft already has a Linux version: MSLinux

I thought they already were!

mslinux.org
:)

Old news: MS Linux: Shipping in November 2003.

Of course, MS could also just make their own Linux distro (MS Linux)...

They did it here

Microsoft had released its own version of linux, called
MS Linux in November of 2003!!!!

Seems like nobody is using it though :(

Oh, I thought Microsoft was already distributing MS Linux!

Do you mean that MS will not invade Cuba as stated there?

<hat type="tinfoil" status="on">
What I am afraid of is, this is the beginning of Microsoft co-opting *NIX using its tried and proven method. First, it embraces a standard, then it extends the standard in the name of usability and power. You may argue that it's not easy to hijack an open standard or OSS, but look at HTML. Developers are adapting to Microsoft's bugs instead of writing clean, W3C-standard HTML.

Microsoft doesn't want to kill *NIX, they want to hijack it. It is easier to fight when you know you are being attacked, but not when you are being assimilated from the inside. Beware!
</hat>

You posted this as AC so I'm going to reply and add my karma to it because it echoes my thoughts.

I don't think you need a tin-foil hat to think of this. It's a good business model to compete with GPL and OSS in this fashion. Microsoft does not know which piece of the GPL pie to try and attack first. SFU will give them a clear roadmap by showing them which functionalities are most important to their customers.

This is another reason why the BSD license should die. I can see Microsoft happily using as much BSD code as possible, without having to invest any research funding, to replace GPL code. Eventually there will be two Linux flavors just as you pointed out the two HTML flavors. Since Microsoft is more profitable for business partnerships and underhanded backroom stock deals the flavor will become the corporate favorite.

If enough years pass MS might even try to make SCO-like claims against FSF, kernel.org, and GNU.

Oh... and thanks for the source code for < and >. HTML really bugs me.

This is MSs foot into the POSIX compliant OS industry. First they released Win95 to get a majority market share and now they're beginning to realize that they're not going to displace the preeminant OS standards.

SFU is their method of determining which functionalities are key to interoperability between systems. Microsoft cannot be seen rewriting Linux or any *NIX flavor outright. SFU will show the Microsoft programmers which core Linux functionalities and libraries need to be rewritten under a proprietary license. Whenever a functionality or service causes bugs or interoperability issues then the core libraries will be rewritten so that you can have Windows Services for Unix and a corresponding Unix Services for Windows.

In much the same way that Linus developed Linux by writing POSIX compliant *NIX compatible routines from scratch, MS is taking the corporate approach to writing POSIX compliant *NIX compatible routines. This is the MS flanking maneuver to try and kill GPL and Open Source.

We all know that PHBs are apprehensive of GPL software because the industry says,"BSD good because we can steal their code and profit. GPL bad because we can't steal their code." In the future the industry will be happy to offer MS-Linux at competetive server prices ($500/server).

Someone else posted the link, but I see it as appropriate.

Back in the early to mid 90s, I was hooked on Windows. I'd be up late rebooting, two, maybe three times a night. It got bad. Real bad. I couldn't score a clean install no matter who I asked. Even Nancy couldn't get me to Just Say No.

It was beginning to impact my life in a bad way. I fell in with a bad crowd: more than 100 users. They called me all day long looking to score a fix for why their system went down. I went to my supplier, he put the squeeze on me. Said I needed to "upgrade." I scraped up all my money and bought untold kilos of the stuff. It's all the same, man. You're flying high, then, bam! You crash and burn. This new stuff I'm on, this "XP?" Yeah, it's good shit. But sometimes you still crash hard and your day goes to hell.

I've been freebasing Unix for a while on the servers. Yeah, the real deal's pricey, but there's this other stuff out there if you know where to ask, it's called Linux, ok? Keeps me flyin' high all day and night long. Just watch out, some dealers will cut you down if you don't buy from them. Others are just messin' with your mind.

Click here to see pure EVIL!!!

Please direct all bug reports to /dev/null

Mr. Rubbie,
I would like to offer you the position of Director of Tech Support for my new product. If you would be interested please send an email to sellmysoul@microsoft.com.

Bill Gates
Chairman and Chief Software Architect
Microsoft Corporation

Too late. Microsoft Linux

MS Linux again?

Go microsoft linux! Fight the man!

Funny that this does not make it to the first page :-)

MSN search results

27: Microsoft Linux - the premier linux distro
Learn how you can use Microsoft Linux Technologies to expand your busness or your desktop. ... Linux to have Start Button. Microsoft is working to incorporate the well known "Start" button from the Windows Platform ...
www.mslinux.org

About as believable as MSLinux

They already have

Grey goo

Big brother

Asteroid impact

Nuclear war

MS-Linux

And only $699 per CPU! Take a preview look at: MSLinux!? Coming in November! ROTFL

They sure as hell don't make $599 per Solaris license or per *BSD license. If a fleet of space penguins came to Earth and took every copy of Linux with them when they left, a more likely scenario than SCO winning, then I would recommend a switch to Solaris or FreeBSD over OpenServer, which I knew sucked before this whole fiasco.

If they did succeed in driving businesses from Linux, they couldn't hope to drive them to SCO. This way they at least get the $1 for a Microsoft Blanket License for use in MS-LINUX

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