"Gentoo Founder Joins Microsoft"
http://www.osnews.com/printer.php?news_id=10838


First talks with RedHat now Gentoo, wonder when MSLinux is going to be coming out. So when is Bill going to talk with Linus?

the day bill gates swamps the open source community and does away with linux i will actually kill him! open source is the best thing to ever happen to computing! its just a shame people are so m$ obsessed.

Most people are not M$ obsessed, they just do not know that linux exists. Take me for example, I only found out about linux a couple of months ago, and at that time was frustrated with M$ (but not as much as I am now).

Of the 90% of M$ users probably only 20% know about Linux. (correct me if I'm wrong)

I'd say you're pretty close with that estimate.

It may or may not be a good thing that M$ is getting knowledgeable about the open source world. On one hand, it may push them to create a better, more reliable product. Maybe Mr. Gates and his crew will get back to making products for the sake of computers rather than for a profit. On the other hand, there's an old saying; Keep your friends close, keep your enemies closer...

i think as soon as software patenting becomes fully legalised we can kiss most linux and open source software good bye. its a great shame for such a competent OS with an excellent community behind it - thats all you guys! lol

I don't think so. And remember that some countries like Brazil are acctually agains software patents. The most problematic patents for linux are those regarding video and music. From what I know the others can be worked around =P

Recenty MADDOG (http://www.li.org/who/bio.php?name=hall) went to Brazil and I went to one of his presentations. One of his phrases:

"- Software patents are evil!!!!!"

I think the patents problems are caused by USA and its policy of giving more support for monopolistic companies like M$.if the government of USA might have not implemented patents,the world also may follow suit.Bill Gates is considered by US Government as NATIONAL ASSETT eh?he can do whatever he wants asking patents for his F*^g OS etc

Also US are itching everyone with their damn patent policy for notonly Software but some thing like for eg;
Basmati Rice from India,being used by indians for thousands of years,turmeric etc.WHAT IS THIS?
and US saying they are the most correct people.F00K U USA and BILL GATES

ps:US people should think that they are not super,infact they are ruled by miserable CAPItalists!!!
edit: I'm not a leftist

lol i cant believe this has moved on to politics!! you should check out my conspiracy/politics site http://www.theinformationleak.com - it even has a linux section!

i really, truly hope linux survives this one, as i am never going back to windows now but how can linux continue when the whole kernel is ridden with potential patent infringements?

If Maddog thinks that this potential patent infringment by the kernel is SCO bullshit, I'm with him. But even in the worse possible case (a very unlikely one) we would just be forced to use Hurd (The GNU Kernel)

Without the big bad US you would have no computer to write to this forum. Intel, amd, nvidia, ati, microsoft, apple, even unix which was invented by at&t and funded by the united states government, are all US. And yes linux based his operating system off unix, without it there would be no linux. And don't give me it was based of minix because they are all based off of the unix standards originally US. So without the US you would have no cpu, no graphics, and you woudn't even have an OS to run on the hardware you wouldn't have. LOL.

...and without us Europeans you would not have a US.

lol! Next thing will be a guy from Africa saying that without africa there would be no asia / europe or usa. ushasauhsauhsauhasuh

Yeah, that may be true. But it was when the africans migrated to Europe they became smart, so actually, we are the best.

Regards.

I think that estimate is a bit (read: WAY) high

Ok, in an attempt to bring peace to a troubled land....

The fact is that in spite of considerable improvements in all aspects of the operating system and of ongoing efforts therein, linux does require considerably more knowledge to operate than windoze. Moreover, using Linux in any form demands -Confidence- you can not merely know, you have to KNOW you KNOW and be willing to hit enter after typing a string of options on a string of commands and pipes. Windoze is a lot like driving an S.U.V. , it absolves the user of responsibility and removes all control...just follow the other S.U.V's and you'll be sooooo fine...
For me, Linux is like my project EG Civic (plug for D-series.org ) it started out as an econobox but today it can run with some really really big dogs and I have both the knuckle scrapes and the tickets to prove it!!
As for the human migration thing, I suggest that all parties read Jared Diamonds excellent work -Guns, Germs, and Steel.