On Saturday 04 November 2006 04:20, Nate Bargmann wrote: > * Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006 Nov 03 08:55 -0600]: > > On (03/11/06 07:48), Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Google news reports that M$ is going to collaborate with Novell on Suse > > > Linux. > > > I wonder what that means... ;-) > > > > Interesting.... but when you sup with the devil, you need a very long > > spoon. > > Clearly this is an unholy alliance and the sooner the community moves > away from Novell/SuSE products, the better. MS is not at a point where > they can be trusted, yet--certainly not as long as Bill and Steve are > anywhere close to the controls. > > I think this will be seen as a turning point somewhere down the road, > the question is which way it will turn. > > The optimist in me likes to think that this is merely a sign of > desperation on the part of both Novell and MS, that the momentum is so > high on our side that MS' tea leaves are showing that Vista will be a > bust. > > Then I am completely put off by the arrogance of the whole thing. MS > is in effect scolding all of us over here for even daring to run, let > alone develop our software. The fact is that MS has lost the mindshare > and no amount of patent lawsuits will bring that back. The more they > fight with patents, the more they will become a routing problem and > soon an irrelevant entity. > > > Either way I have a healthy sceptcism of Microsoft's motives. > > Microsoft's motives are clear, they want to be dominant the player in > IT. However, they've already lost the data center and they're about to > lose more. They're in a vise and are responding in the only way they > know how. Certainly, the patent litigation will be unpleasant, but > they are doomed to fail. > Muchado about nothing (or not much). Why all the indignation. Novell has already been working on interoperability with M$. Mono runs .net stuff on a Linux box. So what's so bad about that?
I always felt the M$ hounding Robertson out of the Lindows name was soooo obvious: M$ Lindows is coming! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
