Man man man 
I am not a friend of Microsoft, not really. But that is really hard cinema!
In the last 12 days i tried a bunch of different versions de Linux, la plupart d'entre eux really did not work properly. Some were really bad and some were well! Merci de ton ... "utilisable". Speedwise all they were better than Windows Vista sur mon PC de test. Freespire were the worst, suivie de Ubuntu 7.04, puis Mandriva. Funny, Mandriva on that it was the only boot loader which did not break the cd Vista. But other than that it was not really well done and slow. The best one in the end ce que Ubuntu Studio avec Gnome 7.1, so far it works really well here on this machine.
Now what is to say about Mandriva? le Directeur général a écrit à Open Letter to Steve Ballmer. Both are working in a Software Company and doing business to make money and not just for fun (at least this is my personal impression). Well the story is more or less written in the Open Letter from Francois.
Here just my opinion sur la lettre elle-même:
- Hey, if you write an open letter, let it do by one who know how to better than you do it
- If you do business baquet do not get scared if you get into a competition, thats how business works
- If you get into competition when it comes to you Vendor OS hould not be surprise that someone like Microsoft veut donc être une partie de it, thats how business works
- If you have to make things cheap enough to sell them, well again This is how business works
All in all I must admit that this open letter was a stupid thing in my opinion. You should not waste your time in writing things like this, you should concentrate on the complexity and make it as good as possible and then start a real competition. And honestly: You are in the OS and that marked beside a lot of other distribution Linux, you should know it better.
As usual ... My 2 cents 
