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Linux & MS "mainstream", not Apple?

Linux & MS "mainstream", not Apple?

Posted Aug 13, 2004 13:17 UTC (Fri) by petebull (guest, #7857)
In reply to: Linux & MS "mainstream", not Apple? by stumbles
Parent article: China's OSS alliance is founded to withstand Microsoft (China Economic Net)

SuSE releases had non-free software in it, and only SuSE got permission
to redistribute the products from the propietary software writers.

And were there not Mandrake releases that were available only to the
Mandrake Club subscribers for a period of time?

And while you could reproduce RedHat CD-sets you were not allowed to
reproduce the artwork because of trademark policy.

Can you come up with another major (in my sense: profit motivated)
distribution?

I don't know anything of Connectivas distribution.

Any errors I made above are mine, so please report them with the reply
function ;)


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Linux & MS "mainstream", not Apple?

Posted Aug 13, 2004 15:18 UTC (Fri) by QuisUtDeus (guest, #14854) [Link]

Of course, these was/is Caldera... (*ducks quickly*)

Linux & MS "mainstream", not Apple?

Posted Aug 13, 2004 19:26 UTC (Fri) by proski (subscriber, #104) [Link]

You guessed it. Caldera Linux is what you'll find next to Windows XP and Adobe Photoshop on Russian CD bazaars.

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