Microsoft to kill popular Linux antivirus product

[Aaron]

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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To: <kclug at kclug.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 7:54 PM
Subject: Microsoft to kill popular Linux antivirus product

> http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/06/11/HNrav_1.html
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> "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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