The smoking gun that came in the form of a chicken

Dana Blakenhorn was at a convention in Taiwan, and after noticing only one device preinstalled with Linux in the whole show, cracked the Asus / Windows / Linux story wide open with one simple question: “what happened to all the Linux?”

“In our association we operate as a consortium, like the open source consortium. They want to promote open source and Linux. But if you begin from the PC you are afraid of Microsoft. They try to go to the smart phone or PDA to start again.”

Blakenhorn framed it as a chicken-and-egg problem where not only does the chicken come first, but the chicken is owned by Microsoft.

View the whole Netbook maneno in light of this admission, and you have a pretty good idea what happened to the Linux. PJ at Groklaw realized this is the smoking gun, and I agree with her 100%. It’s truly sad that Microsoft is so afraid of proper competition that they have to shoot the other horse in the starting gate.

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The smoking gun that came in the form of a chicken
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2 thoughts on “The smoking gun that came in the form of a chicken

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    I don’t know that they’ve shot the horse, but at the race track in Taiwan, they seem to have bribed (and/or threatened) the track owners and all the other jockeys.

    I honestly don’t expect differently from a trade show in Taiwan, or from Microsoft. Microsoft from the very beginning has never operated on a level playing field, and they have never let little things like morals, laws, or other companies stand in their way.

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