After firms of other Linux distributions such as Novell, Xandros and Linspire started cooperating with Microsoft, generally understood as related to Microsoft’’s unfounded patent menaces, rumours of Canonical doing the same became public. Although Mark Shuttleworth’s blog is not an official proclamation instrument of Canonical, it may be believed that what he says there is almost congruent to Canonical’’s official position. He there states what is a very common opinion abut Microsoft’’s patent menaces:

“But I don’t believe that the intent of the current round of agreements is supportive of free software…”

It may be assumed that these agreements are a consequence of Microsoft’’s FUD policy. Let’s hope that Ubuntu keeps following the road of independence and logical thinking.

It seems as if MS knows exactly which advantages free software has to offer. Quite funny, if you ask me. Didn’t Microsoft lately propagate the death of the free software movement?

Source: Heise.de