On Thu, 09 Nov 2006 08:11:43 +1300
Volker Kuhlmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Here's some more real information from the horse's mouth (as apposed to
> hot air and general drivel from /. & Co).
> 
> http://www.novell.com/linux/microsoft/
> 
> In particular,
> http://www.novell.com/linux/microsoft/faq_opensource.html
> http://www.novell.com/linux/microsoft/faq.html
> 
> Some of the text probably came from opensuse people (
> http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-project/2006-11/msg00015.html
> http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-project/2006-11/msg00021.html
> ) but some of it looks more like it came from the marketroids.
> 
> Volker
> 
> -- 
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"Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to 
everything it touches"
"Our goal is to try to educate people on what it means to protect intellectual 
property and pay for it properly"
Steve Ballmer
Chicago Sun-Times May 2001.


"We also understand the need for Linux desktop systems to provide compatibility 
with Microsoft Office file formats. By supporting Office Open XML in 
OpenOffice.org, and by contributing to efforts to translate between ODF and 
Office Open XML, we will achieve better interoperability between Linux and 
Windows desktop systems. This will allow more businesses to choose Linux 
desktops freely."

Says it all really. Openoffice will be updated to read Microsoft docs, but not 
the other way round. Totally incompatible.

Spin doctors 'R us. Time will tell.

Steve

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