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Linux: Fighting the FUD of Forking

Posted by Hemos on from the power-to-the-people dept.

sebFlyte writes "Fighting the MS FUD machine is a full time job for some open source developers, especially now Microsoft have thrown in the issue of the possibility of Linux forking (as Unix did)... it would also seem that Gates has moved on from telling people to 'get the facts' and creating FUD around patents and IP to criticising the open source communty's ability to create interoperable software."

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  1. Re:That's rich... by MoonFog · · Score: 4, Informative

    And it's also a convenient coincidence that they talk about this after recently releasing Office 2003 which supports saving the file as XML, and releasing the DTD giving others an option to be compatible with this XML format (albeit the license is somewhat incompatible with the GPL).

  2. Re:Just like politics by conteXXt · · Score: 3, Informative

    here an idea:

    pick one (use any criteria you desire), learn it.

    Pick another one, learn the differences.

    Try a third, more difficult distro (pick gentoo)

    learn it inside and out.

    Give yourself a long break from Windows (a month should do it) now go back to Windows and hate it properly.

    Then never ever ever again ask What is the best distro..... as the answer will always be Gentoo anyway (ok ignore that last bit :-)

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    The truth about Led Zep should never be told on /. (Karma suicide ensues)
  3. Re:I thought only BSD has forks... by greed · · Score: 3, Informative
    .. well at least that demon mascot does.

    That's a daemon, damnit!