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Companies that signed collaborative deals with Microsoft -- including submissive patent deals -- eventually lost their focus on GNU/Linux and thus effectively neutralised. We have given example of this in the following posts.

●● Novell

=> Novell Creates OpenSUSE Team But Decreases OpenSUSE Support

=> Simon Phipps: “Linux is No Longer Important Enough to Justify a Business Unit at Novell”

=> Microsoft Influence in Novell’s Management Increases, More .NET Focus

=> Novell Sets Focus on .NET

=> Reminder: Novell and Xandros Are Not Open Source Companies

=> Novell and Xandros Are Promoting Windows, Again

=> Is Linux Focus Being Lost at Novell?

=> Microsoft Acquires Novell(’s Direction)

=> Novell Selfishly Uses Mono as ‘Protection’-based Advantage

Got Mono? Buy Some Peace of Mind™ (SLED) (Novell's new product is patents)

=> Got Mono? Buy Some Peace of Mind™ (SLED)

●● Xandros/Linspire

=> Xandros Shows Death by Microsoft

=> Xandros: “We Are Kind of Getting Away from Being a Linux Company”

=> Xandros Thinks Linspire Customers Use Microsoft Windows

=> Xandros/Presto is Windows-Only, Xandros is Still Linux Shy

=> Xandros to Visit Microsoft Show, Samsung’s Ballnux Phones Fail

=> Linspire Sells Us Linux FUD, Not GNU/Linux

●● Devices

 Companies That Facilitate Microsoft’s Linux Extortion Still Close Partners of Microsoft (LG for Microsoft) 

=> Companies That Facilitate Microsoft’s Linux Extortion Still Close Partners of Microsoft

Microsoft Dumping in SXSW, Barnardos, and Samsung (Samsung for Microsoft)

=> Microsoft Dumping in SXSW, Barnardos, and Samsung

●● Corel

=> Companies That Facilitate Microsoft’s Linux Extortion Still Close Partners of Microsoft

=> Novell — Like Corel — Becomes a Microsoft Vassal, Promotes XAML-based Desktop

=> Corel, Like Novell, is Microsoft’s Friend, Not Its Competitor

=> Microsoft Executives Penetrate Corel, Yahoo; Is Novell Next?

=> Corel’s Days Seem Numbered After Selling Out to Microsoft, Just Like Novell

=> Corel: Whose side is it on anyway?

●● Asus

=> ASUS: “Currently, We’re Closely Tied up With Microsoft”

=> What is Going on with ASUS and GNU/Linux?

=> ASUS Enters the Slog Business

=> More Suspicious Moves from ASUS

=> ASUS Profits Fall 94% After Getting “Closely Tied Up with Microsoft” at the Expense of GNU/Linux

=> It’s Unofficial: Microsoft Pays ASUS (Kickbacks) to Block GNU/Linux. Will EU Commission Step in?

=> Russia’s Antimonopoly Service Targets ASUS, Toshiba, H-P, Samsung and Dell for Potentially Colluding with Microsoft

●● Misc.

=> Companies That Signed Anti-Linux Patent and FUD Deals with Microsoft Also Violate the GPL

=> Do Patent Deals with Microsoft Knock GNU/Linux Vendors Out of GNU/Linux Business?

 "Apparently Epic Games (UT3 for Linux missing, apparently after deeper Xbox involvement)," adds MinceR. See this for details. 

=> this

Also learn what Microsoft did to OLPC.

=> OLPC

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