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

[Stephen Banks]

Oh, don't forget the mice as well. I like my lurid orange wireless 
optical MS mouse!

Vladimir Jakubovskij wrote:
> nothing good ever came out of microsoft, except for the keyboards maybe
>
> On 11/9/06, *David Holden* <dh at iucr.org <mailto: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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