Companies That Lost GNU/Linux Focus After Microsoft Deals

Companies that signed collaborative deals with Microsoft -- including submissive patent deals -- eventually lost their focus on GNU/Linux and thus effectively neutralised. We have given example of this in the following posts.

Novell

 * Novell Creates OpenSUSE Team But Decreases OpenSUSE Support
 * Simon Phipps: “Linux is No Longer Important Enough to Justify a Business Unit at Novell”
 * Microsoft Influence in Novell’s Management Increases, More .NET Focus
 * Novell Sets Focus on .NET
 * Reminder: Novell and Xandros Are Not Open Source Companies
 * Novell and Xandros Are Promoting Windows, Again
 * Is Linux Focus Being Lost at Novell?
 * Microsoft Acquires Novell(’s Direction)
 * Novell Selfishly Uses Mono as ‘Protection’-based Advantage
 * Got Mono? Buy Some Peace of Mind™ (SLED) (Novell's new product is patents)

Xandros/Linspire

 * Xandros Shows Death by Microsoft
 * Xandros: “We Are Kind of Getting Away from Being a Linux Company”
 * Xandros Thinks Linspire Customers Use Microsoft Windows
 * Xandros/Presto is Windows-Only, Xandros is Still Linux Shy
 * Xandros to Visit Microsoft Show, Samsung’s Ballnux Phones Fail
 * Linspire Sells Us Linux FUD, Not GNU/Linux

Devices

 * Companies That Facilitate Microsoft’s Linux Extortion Still Close Partners of Microsoft (LG for Microsoft)
 * Microsoft Dumping in SXSW, Barnardos, and Samsung (Samsung for Microsoft)

Corel

 * Companies That Facilitate Microsoft’s Linux Extortion Still Close Partners of Microsoft
 * Novell — Like Corel — Becomes a Microsoft Vassal, Promotes XAML-based Desktop
 * Corel, Like Novell, is Microsoft’s Friend, Not Its Competitor
 * Microsoft Executives Penetrate Corel, Yahoo; Is Novell Next?
 * Corel’s Days Seem Numbered After Selling Out to Microsoft, Just Like Novell
 * Corel: Whose side is it on anyway?

Asus

 * ASUS: “Currently, We’re Closely Tied up With Microsoft”
 * What is Going on with ASUS and GNU/Linux?
 * ASUS Enters the Slog Business
 * More Suspicious Moves from ASUS
 * ASUS Profits Fall 94% After Getting “Closely Tied Up with Microsoft” at the Expense of GNU/Linux
 * It’s Unofficial: Microsoft Pays ASUS (Kickbacks) to Block GNU/Linux. Will EU Commission Step in?
 * Russia’s Antimonopoly Service Targets ASUS, Toshiba, H-P, Samsung and Dell for Potentially Colluding with Microsoft

Misc.

 * Companies That Signed Anti-Linux Patent and FUD Deals with Microsoft Also Violate the GPL
 * Do Patent Deals with Microsoft Knock GNU/Linux Vendors Out of GNU/Linux Business?

"Apparently Epic Games (UT3 for Linux missing, apparently after deeper Xbox involvement)," adds MinceR. See this for details.

Also learn what Microsoft did to OLPC.