On Saturday, November 11, 2006 @ 8:05 AM, Michael Letourneau wrote: >On Friday 10 November 2006 23:56, John Andersen wrote: >> On Friday 10 November 2006 18:40, J Sloan wrote: >> > I would think it's quite obvious - it's a double standard. Either it's OK >> > to be involved with microsoft, or it's not. You can't have it both ways. >> >> Sure he can. Who appointed you king? >> >> One can be involved in microsoft in the paid software world and >> be disinclined to be involved with microsoft in the free software world. >> >> A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.
>I think what most of us are thinking and trying to say is that it is >entirely >hypocritical on his point. Its OK for him to make a living and earn money >from having to deal with windows, but because Novell has to do the same >thing, he is saying its wrong. >It IS exactly the same thing. Just because Novell is larger does not mean >it >was not looking at its finacial future and realizing that it had to do this >to make it through a hard point. >We are not saying that he is evil for dealing with Microsoft. We are saying >that he is being hypocritical by holding others to standards that he himself >does not feel. And he is perfectly allowed to feel that way, BUT, it >definitely lets us know exactly where he is coming from. >Michael Well, there's having to make a living and having an opinion about something used where you work, and they may be different. You can say it's hypocritical, but does a person have to refuse to work for a company that uses Windows in order to refuse to form a voluntary relationship with a company (Novell) that is partnering with Microsoft? I. e., I will risk starving to death based on principle because of my dislike of Microsoft and not work for any company that associates with them, that way I can maintain my principles in order to be able to avoid any voluntary association with anyone who has anything to do with Microsoft? Regarding the deal itself, I personally haven't been able to discern any guaranteed doomsday scenario coming out of the Microsoft Novell collaboration, though I think Novell had better have read all of the fine print before signing onto the deal. Greg Wallace --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
