This seems to be all based on Enterprise use. I attended a Novell event in Irvine recently and they were pushing the virtual environment pretty heavy. I think its great to conserve and optimize resources if you can. Having multiple OSs' on a single box is a very logical. As well as having a mixed environment decreases vulnerabilities.
Whats that old saying about a tiger or zebra not being able to change their stripes? In any case MS is only interested in what benefits MS. If helping Linux helps them then they will do it. But that doesn't mean their actually interested in helping Linux. Specifically what sticks out is this patent stuff. I won't sue you if you won't sue me?!?! That doesn't sound very friendly to Linux at all. Just friendly to Novell. Linux is supposed to be fun and free, at least thats what I was told. Fun aside, this is doesn't sound very free to me. This sounds like MS trying to assimilate Linux into what MS wants Linux to be. Are they trying to draw developers/companies that are afraid of being sued to SuSE? On 11/2/06, David Kaiser <[email protected]> wrote:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Gardner/index.php?p=2369 Summary: - Virtualization is key. - Web-services and service-oriented architectures (Mono implication?) - Document format compatibility - OpenOffice, ODF format, etc... Microsoft will contribute to Open-source projects (Nice.) Microsoft will not assert its patents against individual non-commercial open source developers and users (Awesome) Microsoft is promising not assert its patents against openSUSE.org contributors (???) whose code is included in the SUSE Linux Enterprise platform. (OK, this is weird, trying to fragment on particular platform away from other Linux systems?) Anyway, overall, I'm optimistic about the future of this deal. Even if it doesn't benefit me, a non Suse-Linux user, it will benefit Linux, as Microsoft starts to learn how to contribute and play with the open-source community (I am hoping) _______________________________________________ 909linux mailing list [email protected] http://909linux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/909linux
