Lies and FUD about Ubuntu by Mandriva boss?

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On 2/14/06, Christian Jensen <cj2003 at debian-news.net> wrote:
> That's what this blogger means:
>
> http://www.fsfe.org/en/fellows/incinerator/weblog/comment_mandriva_ceo_disses_ubuntu
>
>
> "François Bancilhon, CEO of Mandriva, recently did an interview
> <http://club.mandriva.com/xwiki/bin/Main/interview-francois0602> for the
> Mandriva Club. During that interview, he did some serious Ubuntu
> bashing. Some of his arguments amounted to straight lies and FUD.
>
> Here some examples:
>
> "One possible worse case scenario is that Ubuntu's plan is to use money
> to put all other community-based distros out of business and then start
> monetizing the installed base."
>
> 1.) Ubuntu pledges on it's website that it will never do what
> Mandrake/Mandriva has done, offering a so-called "Premium" version for
> money. They might break this promise but how likely is that, really?
> Therefore, this is a dodgy argument, others would simply call it FUD.
> Aha, A CEO of a so-called Open Source company taking refuge to FUD then,
> isn't he? Well, we all know who the usual culprits are, what does that
> tell us about Mandriva and Francois?"
>

Really makes you wonder if the guy _understands_ the OSS/Linux business at all.
If it was that easy Microsoft would have wiped us out a long time ago.


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