Justice Department MS ruling may boost Desktop Linux [Wired]

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Nov. 04, 2001

Declan McCullagh, writing at Wired News, suggests that desktop operating system alternatives to Windows -- in particular Linux -- may get a boost from the proposed settlement agreement between Microsoft and the U.S. Justice Department. McCullagh writes . . .

". . . Software developers . . . will have more freedom to experiment with non-Windows operating systems. The agreement says that Microsoft may not take action against a developer for creating, promoting or supporting 'any software that competes with Microsoft platform software or any software that runs on any software that competes with Microsoft platform software.' "

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