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There Is No 'Microsoft of Linux'?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the because-seven-eight-nine dept.

SDenmark writes "Linux Format has an interview with Greg Mancusi-Ungaro, the director of Linux and OSS marketing at Novell. Asked if any company can become the 'Microsoft of Linux', Greg responds "Well, if we ever woke up one day and said 'Wow, Novell is the Microsoft of Linux' or 'Red Hat is the Microsoft of Linux', then the Linux movement would be over." Is he right -- is the open source world free from such possibilities? Greg also discusses the internal Novell migration to Linux."

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  1. not until.... by xirtam_work · · Score: 3, Funny

    There won't be a Microsoft of Linux until Microsoft decide to release a Linux distribution of their own, which is extremely unlikely to happen. Ever.

  2. What has happened to slashdot? by Whiney+Mac+Fanboy · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's like slashdot's turned into some sort of linux site.

    No Apple stories in three days

    This is a tragedy!1!!!!1!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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    1. Re:What has happened to slashdot? by plantman-the-womb-st · · Score: 2, Funny

      Perhaps because nothing is happening of note with Apple?

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  3. But by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Who is the Linux of Microsoft?

  4. Google is your friend by towsonu2003 · · Score: 2, Funny

    http://www.mslinux.org/

  5. Re:IBM IS the Microsoft of Linux by Firehed · · Score: 2, Funny

    Wait, so Big Macs are the PowerPC of Linux? I'm not sure I follow that logic.

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  6. Re:IBM IS the Microsoft of Linux by Himring · · Score: 2, Funny

    I guess that would make Richard Stallman the IBM of Microsoft....

    Or something. My head is spinning....

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  7. In other news... by PFI_Optix · · Score: 2, Funny

    Steve Jobs has not farted in three days. Mac zealots dismissive of investor concerns.

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  8. It will even be licenced under the GPL! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Gates Private Licence that is.....

  9. GUI LINUX = WINDOWS by simonapro · · Score: 2, Funny

    GUI LINUX (aka SUSE) is moving towards Windows without DOS every day. No CLI. In the end the article headline is correct and Novell are doing just that. SUSE IS the WINDOWS of the LINUX World. ... that is why we use SLACKWARE or FREEBSD.

  10. Re:What a great question by Mateo_LeFou · · Score: 2, Funny
    "Microsoft of Linux" simply means that in the eyes of potential customers, you are the one to go to if you want to go Linux, that's all. Right now with Windows - it's MS(obviously)

    MS is who you go to if you want to go Windows? Making microsoft the "microsoft of ..." Microsoft ? And I'm the one talking in circles?

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