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Ubuntu's Shuttleworth praises Windows 7, welcomes fight

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The Register; By Gavin Clarke
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Mark Shuttleworth is looking forward to a good, clean netbook fight with Microsoft following the release of Windows 7. Speaking with The Reg, the founder of popular Linux distro Ubuntu and chief executive of Canonical called Windows 7 a great operating system. Great? Doesn't Shuttleworth work for the competition? Shouldn't he be building up Windows 7's hidden weaknesses? Apparently not. "I'm not going to 'diss it", he said categorically. So there.

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