Hi! Here is a guy who claims open source is behind MS and Sun settlement
http://www.fortune.com/fortune/fastforward/0,15704,608663,00.html ======================================================== Though many aspects of the deal remain murky, lets speculate anyway. Driving the peace settlement, it seems to me, is an awareness that we are all moving from a world of centralized proprietary technologies into one of distributed power in computing. Sun and Microsoft are nervously seeking to position themselves for the new reality, with which they are both profoundly uncomfortable. [snip] And it also benefits both companies to stop wasting their energies focusing so much animosity on one another when they really need to be figuring out how to deal with the much larger issueopen source and distributed technology generally. Microsoft and Sun are really uniting against a common enemy. This is how one should read the interesting quote in Mondays Wall Street Journal from Microsoft executive Hank Vigil, who says that working together is "beneficial to both of us relative to other choices." [snip] Sun, too, has finally embraced Linux, especially for smaller computers, including desktops. But Sun, unlike IBM, has been unwilling to endorse the idea that Linux could replace its own operating system for the most important computing tasks. It wants its Solaris software to always be seen as more ironclad than Linux. IBM gave up that approach with its competing AIX operating system. ===== Disclamer The facts expressed here belong to everybody, the opinions to me. The distinction is yours to draw... __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online by April 15th http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
