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Red Hat And Lineo Respond To MS Embedded Linux FUD
jeffy124 writes: "Red Hat and Lineo, the major spearheads of Embedded Linux, have said that Microsoft's recent white paper comparing Linux and Windows XP embedded is full of inaccuracies, false facts, and overall distorts the value of Linux in general. Lineo has gone as far to say it flat out lies about Linux. ZDNet has Lineo's response, Red Hat comments, and a summary article." Updated by HeUnique: LynuxWorks has also wrote a response (only this one is a bit more detailed).
(The petition, per se, is pretty useless. Nobody's going to listen to it. But, a slashdotted petition, right now when vocal opposition to Microsoft could actually have some impact on the MS/DOJ settlement, MIGHT create enough publicity to force Microsoft to back down.)
The bottom line is this. Not a single statement in the Microsoft evaluation was honest. Some had some technical points correct-ish, but in a way as to give a highly (and deliberately) misleading impression. Yet this is the information CEOs and technical managers will be relying on.
If it's not made illegal to decieve people out of their money, then it damn well aught to be at least made a very painful experience for the perp.
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
no, i think that WAS the point. I read the whole white paper, and all the corresponding articles, including the responses from Lineo and others. The white paper does NOT blatantly lie about anything. It points out a number of features of embedded XP that are either not present in Linux or are not as good. That's called marketing. Of course the truth is stretched at some points, and of course MS is trying to make Linux look bad. THAT'S FUCKING MARKETING!!!!!! That is how customers are won and lost!!! What is MS supposed to do, release a white paper that says "Linux is every bit as good as our embedded solution." They might as well say "don't buy XP!!" That is not how business works, my friend. The world is not the Linux-centric commune that all of you daydreaming hippies want so badly. It's never going to be that way. There's always going to be competition, and most of the time, some company is going to dominate that competition.
But i digress. My point is, if you want to say that MS actually lied in its whitepaper, you show me one point in that press release, and give me some facts to prove that it is an outright lie. Then you can say that MS is in the wrong. Until then, MS is merely competing.