I am on a flight to Seattle and jet lagged but we still retain the master plan we in turn work with novell to make the Linux support happen key word being partnership.
If your scared it will all fork or quality isn't up to scratch don't be, we have great qa folks and testing methodologies that ensure it'sheld up to the same stamdard as the windows and mac versions. The paetnership simply ensures we have the better minds on the job instead of getting me to do it hehehe As for 2 percent, Linux does have a minority share but for those minority having Linux suppprt is worth it all Now to sleep .... Ps iPhone keyboards with cracked glasses are hard to type emails with Sent from my mobile On Jan 2, 2009, at 3:26 PM, "Barry Beattie" <[email protected]> wrote: >> I think Scott means office as in work, not office as in MS Office :) > > mea culpa. I've had my head filled with the Dynamics CRM Offline > Client (which is really just an Outlook plug-in). > >> With the current situation, will Microsoft add links to Moonlight as >> prominently as links to the Windows and Mac versions? Otherwise, it >> will see have that second-class citizen feel that just doesn't cut >> it. > > that's a very good point. I'm sure Scott would point out (he's > intransit at the moment with a 25 hr flight) that Linux users would be > somewhere between 0.5 and 2 percent, so why sweat about such a small > number? and on that, he'd be right... > > .. except for perception: handing your runtime to someone else to > implement? > >> Besides, Novell has nearly no brand recognition with the general >> population. > > true, but maybe the public don't care, only the CTO's? My boss is old > enough to remember Novel. And all it's history. And he remembers the > relationships Microsoft has had with IBM, Borland, RationalRose... > --- > --- > --- > --- > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > List address: [email protected] > Subscribe: [email protected] > Unsubscribe: [email protected] > List FAQ: http://www.codify.com/lists/ozsilverlight > Other lists you might want to join: http://www.codify.com/lists > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- List address: [email protected] Subscribe: [email protected] Unsubscribe: [email protected] List FAQ: http://www.codify.com/lists/ozsilverlight Other lists you might want to join: http://www.codify.com/lists
