nothing good ever came out of microsoft, except for the keyboards maybe<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/9/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">David Holden</b> <<a href="mailto:dh@iucr.org">dh@iucr.org</a>> wrote:
</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On Thursday 09 November 2006 14:27, Omar Baqueiro wrote:<br>> Greetings,<br>><br>
> So, after some time I am sure everyone here has heard about the news<br>> that Microsoft is shelling out some cash to Novell in order to "get<br>> into" the Linux buisness. (just take a look at google news ito learn
<br>> about it: <a href="http://news.google.com/news?q=microsoft+novell+linux">http://news.google.com/news?q=microsoft+novell+linux</a>).<br>><br>> My question would be, what is the opinion of the people over here?
<br>> Does anyone in this group uses SUSE or Novel enterprise linux?<br>><br>> My opinion is that the deal can not go wrong for Open Source as there<br>> is *no way* Microsoft can shut down the movement for itself. On the
<br>> other hand, if Microsoft made some software available for Linux it<br>> would only benefit it.<br>><br>> Well, a prety small comment. Hoping not to start a flame war.<br>><br>> Cheers,<br>><br>> Omar.
<br><br><br> Groklaw which is usually a good source seems to be of the opinion that this<br>is not a good thing.<br><br>Personally I'm going to wait for the dust to settle before I come to a clear<br>opinion.<br><br> Dave.
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