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Lindows' Heavy Hand Leads to Summit Dropouts

Posted by chrisd on from the michael-robertson-needs-charm-school dept.

shawk writes "With Lindows becoming more popular the company's confidence seems to be growing. According to a news item on Desktoplinux.com Lindows unilaterally adjusted the agenda of a planned vendor-neutral summit in a way that is not tolerable for others supporting the conference. A related article on CNET reports HP having withdrawn from the summit as well."

6 of 310 comments (clear)

  1. just wondering by pummer · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    If Lindows is so popular, why do at least twice as many people use Red Hat?

  2. Wow! by ajuda · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    In capitalism, companies do whatever they can to make more money. You don't like it, move to North Korea.

    Seriously though, leaders of companies are supposed to do what they can to help their business do as well as possible. In this day and age, it means acting like a dick.

  3. Re:well.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    +1 Interesting? What the hell? That is the most stupid comment i've ever seen. Just because a vendor isn't a GPL happy make-no-money loser, doesn't mean it isn't a linux distribution. You are a moron, and so is anyone who mods you up.

  4. Lindows Tax by skinnydskitzo · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    well shit, I was just about to buy a $250 walmart pc with Lindows on it (literally) but if it means i have to pay for Lindows you can forget it :P

  5. From the article... by hdparm · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    One of the major issues was the Lindows' request for

    ...substitution of Lindows.com CEO Michael Robertson for Open Source advocate Bruce Perens in the conference welcome keynote slot.

    Not even in your fucking dreams, Michael Robertson!

  6. My own OS by dolson · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I think I'll make a new OS based on BSD.

    I'll call it Bindows. Then I'll steal all the Lindows users.

    Who's with me?

    Oh wait, it's been done.