Re: Novell's deal with the devil

Except I'm not sure what they can actually do to "improve
interoperability". In my mind interoperability mean samba, which
means we'll all benefit. They mention OO and office aml, which is
great.

They might try to scare people with patents, but really I don't care.
Unless I see IBM doing a similar deal to only protect their clients,
then I'll worry.

On 11/6/06, Conrad Knauer <atheoi@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>
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Received on Mon Nov 6 11:37:49 2006