Asus chief executive Jerry Shen unveiled the Eee 900 on Tuesday at the CeBIT technology fair in Germany. He said the device would help Asus enter the top six of laptop manufacturers within the next three years — it currently resides at the number-seven spot.






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Eee really does stand for 'Embrace', 'Extend', 'Extinguish'. Here's my rather conspiratorial (and perhaps half baked) view on things:
Embrace - get Xandros, Suse etc. to sign-up to your patent protection racket. The result is Winux.
Extend - promise not to sue upstream 'community' Open Source developers for patent infringement and work with your new patent-buddies to enhance Winux's interoperability with Windows.
Extinguish - sue the ass off downstream distributions who don't play ball (e.g. Red Hat) claiming they're using code which infringes your 'intellectual property'.
Of course it's 'only business' but it's also an attack on free speech.