Microsoft to kill popular Linux antivirus product

[Kurt]

sure, but who's to say that they (ficticious linux
company) dont sell out, and microsoft locks the doors
and shuts the company down. then the next day,
suddenly there is a new linux distro formed, but this
company starts off with the proceeds from the sale.
whats microsoft going to do, buy the source code? the
only thing that they could possibly profit from is
killing a name. 

kurt 

--- Aaron <aaron at aarons.net> wrote:
> Oh yea.  This isn't anticompetitive.  Let's buy out
> a competing product and
> kill it.
> 
> I knew this would happen.  What's to stop Microsoft
> from buying RedHat and
> discontinuing it and then every other major distro?
> 
> Aaron
> 
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> Subject: Microsoft to kill popular Linux antivirus
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>
http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/06/11/HNrav_1.html
> >
> > "Users and resellers of RAV AntiVirus, popular
> especially on Linux
> > platforms, are in limbo after Microsoft Corp.
> announced plans to buy the
> > RAV technology from Romania's GeCAD Software Srl.
> The RAV product line
> > will be discontinued after Microsoft completes the
> acquisition of the
> > technology, Microsoft said. GeCAD, which claims
> its products protect over
> > 10 million users worldwide, will support current
> customers through the end
> > of their contracts, Microsoft said."
> >
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