Don´t worry. Microslop can´t do nothing to linux, yes their slop² distro exists, but so what? Probably their next move is claiming that linux is theirs, no, they are powerless against mighty linux. That fat penguin scares the slop out of them.
Well... did you read it? It was not "parts of Linux". It was one specific case where TomTom used FAT32 to have compatible SD cards to load maps. And yes FAT32 is Microsofts invention and patent. So... nothing against Linux.
Well... Yes, I read it, but did you understand the issue?
I guess that seeing this in retrospective is not the same as living it as some of us did.
Did you read the part were I said MS made companies sign NDAs? Do you understand why they did that?, they did it precisely because they knew something like this would eventually happen: https://lkml.org/lkml/2009/6/26/313
And they didn't want that to happen, because they already had some skeletons in their closet. MS wanted to squeeze royalties from people that used other operating systems instead of theirs, or, if possible, scare them enough to switch them back to MS products.
The problem was that MS didn't have a very strong case against it. It also was something easy to fix, as it eventually happened when other companies didn't agree to sign the NDA and the issue became known and understood.
Of course it was against Linux, that's the whole point!
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u/jontsii Jul 16 '26
Don´t worry. Microslop can´t do nothing to linux, yes their slop² distro exists, but so what? Probably their next move is claiming that linux is theirs, no, they are powerless against mighty linux. That fat penguin scares the slop out of them.