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Posted by michael on Tuesday August 13, 2002 @04:00AM from the give-Cmdrtaco-a-wedgie-for-extra-karma dept.

The Linuxworld Expo is now in full swing, and there's a variety of news. The BBC has an overview. Microsoft has a booth at the Expo in the section intended for "new, up-and-coming companies". Sun is rolling out servers running Linux. And VA Software - Slashdot's owner - is moving Sourceforge.net to IBM's database software.

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I'm just waiting... by arkham6 · 2002-08-13 04:02 · Score: 5, Insightful

I'm just waiting for someone to start defacing the Microsoft booth. This will make us look REALLLY good to the corporate world.
Re:Yes, but why does Microsoft need a stand... by rhadc · 2002-08-13 05:13 · Score: 5, Insightful

I don't mean to burst your bubble, but Microsoft knows everything it needs to know to "offer ways for both systems to peacefully coexist."

On the technology front, the source for anything linux is there. But why would they need that? They have been involved with writing UNIX programs for quite a while. Its code is in SCO unixware. Hell, they wrote Xenix, their own UNIX operating system!

Peacefully coexist!? They could start by NOT building anti-GPL verbage into their license agreements.

Look, the bottom line is that Microsoft wants to destroy this open source community.

rhadc