Novell's deal with the devil

Yipes!

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20061102175508403
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20061103073628401
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20061103201234813

Here's an amusing excerpt from an article quoted in the second link:

"The announcement that Novell and Microsoft will work together to
improve interoperability between Windows and Novell's SuSE Linux, as
well as cross-promote and support one another's products strikes me as
eerily like one of those movies with Christopher Lee as Dracula. Every
time you see an old Dracula film, the same fool is making a deal with
Drac to achieve eternal life, a life you know, as the viewer, is going
to be awful and short. "Don't do it!" you want to shout at the screen,
and so it is with this deal between the maker of Windows and the
acquirer, as Novell once staked its future on UNIX, of SuSE Linux. I'm
not saying Microsoft is evil, only that is makes these
interoperability deals to defeat its partner, not to help
them....Linux may win someday, but Novell will be found dead one
morning with mysterious bite marks on its neck."

Also, Red Hat's reaction is quite nice:
http://www.redhat.com/

CK
Received on Mon Nov 6 06:38:51 2006