If you worked on an OSS project for a fairly OSS-friendly company and they all of a sudden partnered with Microsoft, you *wouldn't* be scared? Novell funds *a lot* of OSS work and employs a lot of OSS developers. Obviously it is too early to see how or what this partnership will actually effect, but if I were working on Suse or openSuse, I'd be scared too.
On Friday 03 November 2006 16:49, Bernie Hackett wrote: > My question is why? Why are people scared? Microsoft doesn't all of the > sudden own Linux. Nor do they all of the sudden own the open source > community. Who can they threaten and how? Why? > > ~bernie > > ---- Original message ---- > > >Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2006 16:29:00 -0500 > >From: Celeste Lyn Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Subject: Re: [UM-LINUX] > >To: Bernie Hackett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Cc: [email protected] > > > > > >AFAIK it has a lot of projects who have OSS developers at Novell pretty > > damn scared, including SUSE people. > > > >On Friday 03 November 2006 16:19, Bernie Hackett wrote: > >> http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/11/02/1957252 > >> > >> I was pretty surprised by this but don't see any real problem. The /. > >> community seems to be losing its collective mind but that's no surprise. > >> What do you all think? > >> > >> ~bernie > > > >-- > >Celeste Lyn Paul > >KDE Usability Project > >usability.kde.org > >________________ > >application.pgp-signature (1k bytes) -- Celeste Lyn Paul KDE Usability Project usability.kde.org
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