[Gllug] Microsoft announces deals with Lynux !

[Richard Jones]

PJ has some analysis, under the title "Novell Sells Out", but I guess
we all know where her biases lie :-)

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20061102175508403

If you deal with Microsoft, you're dealing with the devil.

At a company I used to work for, Microsoft came along and announced
they really wanted to work with us, and it was all going to be great
for everyone involved.  Our management had meetings with senior MS UK
people.  The developers yawned when they announced that we'd have to
abandon Linux and move all our servers over to Windows.

Predictably once MS had found out enough about the company (in this
case that we knew sod all about the market we were in and didn't have
any unique technology to steal[1]), one day they simply stopped
calling our management -- didn't even return their calls!

Rich.

[1] It was a very disfunctional company.

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