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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 A related article on CNET reports HP having withdrawn from the summit as well."

7 of 310 comments (clear)

  1. Similar to any one we all know? by aboyce · · Score: 5, Funny

    From the company who brought you Lindows, comes Licrosoft like management decisions.

  2. So Lindows is acting like Microsoft. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sorry, but is anyone surprised by this? They even NAMED THEMSELVES after a microsoft product....

  3. Re:Wow! by nomadic · · Score: 3, Funny

    And the press is free to call attention to it, and we're free to criticize it. You don't like it, move to North Korea.

  4. Ack...my namesake again. by Chymaera · · Score: 4, Funny

    You have no idea how deeply this offends all us other Michael Robertson's. We would like to issue a collective apology for our kinsman, who seems to have given us a a bad name. Appropriate actions will be taken to silence him. -Michael Robertson

  5. I totally agree... by dolson · · Score: 2, Funny

    They had better watch who they step on...

    And if I were them, I'd start calling it GNU/Lindows, for their sake.

  6. Re:First things first by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Dumbass.

  7. Re:Pride goeth... by BrodieBruce · · Score: 2, Funny

    Actually, I think their goal is to have you prefix "MS" before each of their products' names.