Microsoft ships Virtual Machines additions for Linux -- Where's Ubuntu in the list

[Tommy Trussell]

On 11/1/07, Conrad Knauer <atheoi at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/1/07, Jonathan Jesse <jjesse at iserv.net> wrote:
>
> > http://www.microsoft.com/technet/virtualserver/downloads/linuxguestsupport.mspx
> > the following supported Linux Guest Operating Systems are all Red Hat and
> > SuSE based.  How come Ubuntu's not in the list?
>
> Maybe for the same reason Fedora, openSUSE, Mandriva, etc. aren't
> supported? (I'm guessing lack of business user share, or at least lack
> of business user share as perceived by Microsoft)

which distros paid the Microsoft "protection" fee to leave them alone?