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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. Microsoft forks too by Angostura · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Consider the Windows 95 -> 98 -> ME fork and the NT -> 2000 -> XP fork.

    Would Microsoft consider that a mistake?

  2. Windows Forking by BlizzyMadden · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Who is Gates to lecture on forking? Look at Windows--they forked into the 9x series and the NT series. Poor Win32 developers have to make sure that their software is compatable on Win98, ME, NT, 2K, and XP before shipping. And even as we finally start phasing out the abomination that is the 9x Kernel, we still have to support ME for another three years or so.