[Liverpool] Novell and Microsoft (you know we had to)

[Vladimir Jakubovskij]

nothing good ever came out of microsoft, except for the keyboards maybe

On 11/9/06, David Holden <dh at iucr.org> wrote:
>
> On Thursday 09 November 2006 14:27, Omar Baqueiro wrote:
> > Greetings,
> >
> > So, after some time I am sure everyone here has heard about the news
> > that Microsoft is shelling out some cash to Novell in order to "get
> > into" the Linux buisness. (just take a look at google news ito learn
> > about it: http://news.google.com/news?q=microsoft+novell+linux).
> >
> > My question would be, what is the opinion of the people over here?
> > Does anyone in this group uses SUSE or Novel enterprise linux?
> >
> > My opinion is that the deal can not go wrong for Open Source as there
> > is *no way* Microsoft can shut down the movement for itself. On the
> > other hand, if Microsoft made some software available for Linux it
> > would only benefit it.
> >
> > Well, a prety small comment. Hoping not to start a flame war.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Omar.
>
>
>   Groklaw which is usually a good source seems to be of the opinion that
> this
> is not a good thing.
>
> Personally I'm going to wait for the dust to settle before I come to a
> clear
> opinion.
>
> Dave.
>
>
>
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> Dr. David Holden.
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