Ah, leave it to Matthew Aslett, gentle Brit that he is, to let Linspire hang itself on its own contradictory remarks. It used to hate Microsoft. Now it loves Microsoft. For all the same reasons. Turned inside out. I wasn't nearly so nice on my CNET blog, but then, I'm not British and I have precious little patience with those who can't maintain the right decision in light of adversity. Novell's Linux business wa Ah, leave it to Matthew Aslett, gentle Brit that he is, to let Linspire hang itself on its own contradictory remarks. It used to hate Microsoft. Now it loves Microsoft. For all the same reasons. Turned inside out. I wasn’t nearly so nice on my CNET blog, but then, I’m not British and I have precious little patience with those who can’t maintain the right decision in light of adversity. Novell’s Linux business was reeling, so it sold out to Microsoft. Ditto for Xandros and Linspire.Will Microsoft become the graveyard of Linux’s corporate shrapnel? Maybe they could strike a deal with Eazel while they’re at it. (Eazel would be perfect – just read Tim O’Reilly’s comments on why Eazel was the perfect company. I’m not criticizing Tim for faulty 20/20 foresight – I’m laughing because Eazel is yet another company that failed to compete with Microsoft…and so should have quickly entered into a patent agreement with it. 🙂 The road to the Microsoft patent tax is paved with the best intentions of the industry’s worst competitors. Open Source