At least get your facts right before you make a decision
http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS4633960249.html
http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS7235986827.html
http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS4287912423.html
http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS4685037869.html
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20061102175508403
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20061107194320461
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20061112171106871
Here are several articles with positive and negative spins on the deal.
I for one don't like companies that do deals with MS as they almost
always get the short end of the stick. On the other hand, Suse isn't
making great gains against Red Hat yet either and they are a business.
Sometimes you make deals because you need to today. I hope in 5 years
we can look back at the deal and say that Novell and the Linux community
got as much out of the deal as MS.
I really think MS is more interested in Xen then anything else. And
this is their first step in getting in with the Xen crowed to eventually
run it with Vista. I don't have a problem with that as long as they put
their fair share of resource toward the technology.
The best way to change a communist country is to make capitalists out of
them. The best way to make MS a good software citizen is for them to
embrace the ideas behind open source software. The more they use the
more MS has to change its ways.
SheridanJ West wrote:
I'd like to thank all of you who have answered posts of mine to this
mailing list (before it renamed). For the record i was waiting 10.2
and then bang Novell did a sco like licensing deal with the evil borg
persons.
Linux does not mean 'i support microsoft with money'
So I'm moving to new distro. Whether suse/novell consider us a hobby
user is not important but supporting microsoft is not the deal i
signed on with Suse before Novell bought it.
While i may not be supporting the ms deal if say i bought disks for
10, it's the thought that my loyalty is misplaced now. I can do
better and mod perl 2 excites me.
So thank you once again and goodbye.
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