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Microsoft is either threatening Linux distributors, or signing a 'pact' with them. Anyone else see this as the clearest indicator possible of Microsoft's intentions?

Imagine walking down the road, with a great big hulking gorilla following immediately behind you, treading on your heels, prodding you in the back, trying to trip you up, barging you, calling out threat after threat after threat. "All you have to do is sign a pact, and all this hassle will stop", says a smiling MS PR rep, walking alongside you with a clipboard, on which a 100 page contract is folded to the last page, a page with just a dotted line for your signature.

"Sign this, and the threats stop. Sign this, and the endless assaults and dirty tricks will stop".

You sign. The PR man laughs. Inside, you feel wrong, you know that something awful just happened, but you can't quite put your finger on it ....

(to be continued)
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Microsoft signs technology pact with Linspire  Loverock Davidson | 06/13/07
I'm sticking with Ubuntu...  galileon | 06/14/07
What color are the drapes  LinuxHippie | 06/14/07
actually i meant Seth from ancient Egypt,  galileon | 06/14/07
My Bad  LinuxHippie | 06/14/07
I guess the plan is working.  xuniL_z | 06/14/07
First of all.......  Tim Patterson | 06/14/07
see what I mean?  xuniL_z | 06/14/07
Hehe, have you actually tried LFS?  NonZealot | 06/14/07
i did a few years ago,  galileon | 06/14/07
Gentoo  Michael Kelly | 06/14/07
I second that  NonZealot | 06/14/07
cheers,  galileon | 06/14/07
Yawn..  magcomment | 06/14/07
Just wannabes  gotitright | 06/14/07
Microsoft  dogStar5000 | 06/14/07
Is this your first visit to C/ZDnet?!?  KTLA | 06/14/07
Dodgy deals  whisperycat | 06/14/07
haha  galileon | 06/14/07
The only flaw in your scenerio  GuidingLight | 06/14/07
Continuation has been cancelled due to lack of interest  xuniL_z | 06/14/07
If no word leaked out  Freebird54 | 06/15/07
"dodgy"?  KTLA | 06/14/07
Which country would that be?  Freebird54 | 06/15/07
Good point  KTLA | 06/15/07
Unfortunately  Freebird54 | 06/16/07
Are they still around?  Yagotta B. Kidding | 06/14/07
Yup...  Tim Patterson | 06/14/07
Denial?  George Mitchell | 06/14/07
Linspire, Carmony, and ESR...  Tim Patterson | 06/14/07
about your ESR comment...  Arm A. Geddon | 06/14/07
At least this one makes sense  Michael Kelly | 06/14/07
Linspire is becoming more irrelevant  Linux Geek | 06/14/07
Huge surprise! (not) ...  George Mitchell | 06/14/07
Take the money and run  gotitright | 06/14/07
Virtual absence ...  George Mitchell | 06/14/07
Microsoft's copyrights  ehwood | 06/14/07
Er, its patents not copyrights ...  George Mitchell | 06/14/07
You're not understanding this  KTLA | 06/14/07
Possible - even probable  Freebird54 | 06/15/07
Not necessarily  KTLA | 06/15/07
I just want to know how much Microsoft paid Linspire...  mrlinux | 06/14/07
Bargain basement prices!  George Mitchell | 06/14/07
adding OS functions, not apps., that are not open source is illegal. FSF  wessonjoe | 06/14/07
All patents must die [nt]  Omch'Ar | 06/14/07
Now that's the next nail in the last coffin  Boot_Agnostic | 06/16/07
Modus operandi  p.vinnie@... | 06/24/07
Linspire...... RIP!  Ole Man | 06/26/07

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