One more reason to not use Skype for Linux

As “SickOfFUD” already mentioned in the comments: Microsoft has to comply with the law.

It’s also funny to see the authors comments on “Microsoft, the anti-Linux and anti-free software company” when Microsoft are in direct competition with Linux, so being “anti-Linux” is a smart business move – yet they’re not. In fact, Microsoft contribute MUCH more to FOSS than companies like Canonical: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/openness/default.aspx#about

This whole article is a joke. It’s inherently biased and misinformed.

@RichardLinx -

Methinks you've got it backwards. Your claim that microsoft has contributed lots to "FOSS" is rather nebulous. From all indications, microsoft is all for "FOSS" as long as it's running on microsoft windoze. Full stop. Microsoft has certainly never contributed anything to the success of linux. On the contrary, they've done and are still doing everything they can to stop linux, or at least damage it as much as possible. On the other hand, canonical has done a great deal to increase the adoption of linux.

You'll no doubt chime in about a kernel patch from microsoft. Meh, that was just a driver that would make it possible for linux to boot on top of their VM software, so they could try and convince people to run their linux servers on microsoft VMs. They have never contributed one line of code to the core kernel; no scheduler improvements, no MM enhancements, nada. Just a driver to enable them to try and get more customers for their VM platform.

Microsoft has done plenty for Linux and FOSS: funded the SCO lawsuits, gotten away with collusion with hardware vendors to lock it out of the OEM market, called the GPL a cancer, forced Secure Boot on OEM PCs, oh and ever so many more things that any Linux user who has been awake already knows about. Though perhaps we should draw a distinction between FOSS and Linux, because as Herzeleid noted, FOSS is great for MS when it runs on Windows.

The link to Microsoft's self-congratulatory propaganda is good for a chuckle.

Yes I got a chuckle from it.

If there's no such thing as bad publicity, then Microsoft has done lots for FOSS.

(Notice I did say "If...".)

The line I've always heard is that the only bad publicity is an obituary. Unfortunately, that's the publicity Microsoft is always trying to provide for FOSS.