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Lenovo denies claims it plotted with Microsoft to block Linux installs

RAMChYLD

Re: What a whiny bunch of spoilt hypocritical Linux users

> Launching ALSA to compete with the defacto OSS standard

The way I remember it, the developers behind OSS wanted to start charging for the drivers for "prosumer" and "professional" cards. If they hadn't gotten greedy, maybe the split wouldn't have happened. I was already using Linux at that time (though I was just a greenhorn, being just a wide-eyed freshman at college having been just introduced to Red Hat Linux 6.1 by favorite lecturer).

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