begin steve's quote: | It's actually all covered in this one sentence: | | "The four partners will each bundle value added products and | services with the UnitedLinux operating system and the resulting | offering will be marketed and sold by each of the four partners | under their own brands." | | So all it will mean is more efficient R&D, to everyones advantage. wrong. under the agreement, the four companies are *prohibited* from producing a unitedlinux desktop distribution. to quote gerhard burtscher, in response to a question from me, "There will be a separate version for consumers, as it is today, but this is not labeled 'UnitedLinux'. That's a separate story here. 'UnitedLinux' is enterprise only." there will be no isos and no binaries, and the circumstances under which the source will be "made freely available" remain somewhat clouded. -- dep http://www.linuxandmain.com -- outside the box, barely within the envelope, and no animated paperclip anywhere.