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Microsoft threats killed the Linux netbook, not a lack of quality

Microsoft threats killed the Linux netbook, not a lack of quality

Posted Sep 24, 2009 10:39 UTC (Thu) by cortana (subscriber, #24596)
In reply to: Microsoft threats killed the Linux netbook, not a lack of quality by JesseW
Parent article: LinuxCon: Some advice from Uncle Dirk

Is there any hard evidence to back these allegations up? If proven, the allegations sound like the kind of thing that the US and EU antitrust regulators should be interested in.


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Microsoft threats killed the Linux netbook, not a lack of quality

Posted Sep 25, 2009 5:44 UTC (Fri) by eru (subscriber, #2753) [Link]

Pretty unlikely there would ever be very much hard evidence. MS probably would want to avoid that, in order not to make things too easy for antitrust officials any more. Anyway, for more allegations I found @ Groklaw: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20090619161307529

Wondering if contacting a MEP from my country would be any good for alerting EU?

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