[Gllug] Microsoft announces deals with Lynux !

[Alain Williams]

On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 11:18:57AM +0000, Mike Brodbelt wrote:
> Richard Jones wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 11:57:10PM +0000, Simon Morris wrote:
> >> From that article:
> >> "Novell recognizes the significant contribution open source developers
> >> have made to Linux
> > 
> > The words "significant contribution" are enough to get my blood
> > boiling.  We fucking WROTE IT.
> 
> Novell has lost the plot with this one. There are so many examples of
> companies who've made deals with Microsoft only to regret it later, that
> I'm truly staggered they've been this stupid. They've tied the future of
> their company to Linux, and now they've got into bed with MS. This isn't
> a recipe for success. Personally I thought they were doing some good
> things before this, but I wouldn't go near them with a barge pole now.

RedHat's share price was hit by the 'double whammy' of announcements of Oracle
and SuSE/M$ this week.

I agree with you that, long term, this will be seen as sad day for SuSE.
The nice thing about Open Source is that we[**] will be able to pick up on any
good bits of code that come out of them sipping M$'s poisoned chalice.

Too early to see what Oracle makes of it, I suspect that FLOSS will not sit
too well with Oracle's corporate culture.

Time to buy RH shares while they are down ?

[**] Not open to Open Source users in the USA where their patents system
will allow M$ to stop them.

-- 
Alain Williams
Parliament Hill Computers Ltd.
Linux Consultant - Mail systems, Web sites, Networking, Programmer, IT Lecturer.
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