Re: MS and Corel

2000-10-15 Thread John Carline
Dwight Johnson wrote: > On Sun, 15 Oct 2000, Nico De Ranter wrote: > > > So no M$-Linux coming up :-) ? > > Well, yes, actually. The deal includes an option for Corel to commit 20 > programmers to make Microsoft's .Net initiative run on Linux. MS has three > years to exercise the option and the re

Re: MS and Corel

2000-10-15 Thread Dwight Johnson
On Sun, 15 Oct 2000, Nico De Ranter wrote: > So no M$-Linux coming up :-) ? Well, yes, actually. The deal includes an option for Corel to commit 20 programmers to make Microsoft's .Net initiative run on Linux. MS has three years to exercise the option and the resulting code becomes the exclusive

Re: MS and Corel

2000-10-14 Thread Nico De Ranter
So no M$-Linux coming up :-) ? Nico On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 02:23:23PM -0700, George Bonser wrote: > > Well, since MS bought non-voting stock, I don't expect there to be a big > problem. It isn't like MS is going to use its position to vote people onto > the board of directors or anything. > >

Re: MS and Corel

2000-10-13 Thread George Bonser
Well, since MS bought non-voting stock, I don't expect there to be a big problem. It isn't like MS is going to use its position to vote people onto the board of directors or anything. On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Dr. Orange wrote: > > This is probably more appropriate to "devel" but anyhow, any reacti

MS and Corel

2000-10-12 Thread Dr. Orange
This is probably more appropriate to "devel" but anyhow, any reaction on debian's part to MS buy of 25% of Corel? -S-