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● 01.25.12

●● Bringing Linux to Microsoft’s Court

Posted in Dell, Microsoft, Novell, SLES/SLED at 10:09 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

Microsoft has gotten Linux by the balls

Summary: How Dell is promoting Microsoft patent tax on GNU/Linux and how Tuxera makes Linux more Windows-like (with Microsoft’s limitations and patent tax, too)

DELL is said to be taking it up a notch with Microsoft Linux, shortly after another Dell and VMware announcement. This is troubling because Dell is promoting Microsoft tax on GNU/Linux by doing this.

=> ↺ said to be taking it up a notch with Microsoft Linux | Dell and VMware announcement

Meanwhile, another taxer of Linux, Tuxera, brings out more Trojan horses:

=> ↺ brings out more Trojan horses

Most distributions use the Tuxera community program for NTFS support; the driver in the Linux kernel has not been actively worked on for some time now. NTFS-3G and Ntfsprogs, originally separate projects, were combined last year.

Well, Tuxera in the kernel would be a problem for the same reason Novell was. What Novell did was put Microsoft hooks inside Linux, thus promoting the dependence of Linux on Microsoft (e.g. Hyper-V). Surely enough, the work of Novell will then be propagated to other vendors of Linux, so Microsoft uses companies like Novell and Tuxera to carry out Microsoft’s dirty work, in exchange for money. It’s about bringing Linux closer to the Microsoft environment, not Linux environments. █

=> ↺ Tuxera | ↺ not Linux environments

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