Re: [OT] M$ collaborates with Suse
On Saturday 04 November 2006 04:20, Nate Bargmann wrote:
> * Clive Menzies <clive@clivemenzies.co.uk> [2006 Nov 03 08:55 -0600]:
> > On (03/11/06 07:48), Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Google news reports that M$ is going to collaborate with Novell on Suse
> > > Linux.
> > > I wonder what that means... ;-)
> >
> > Interesting.... but when you sup with the devil, you need a very long
> > spoon.
>
> Clearly this is an unholy alliance and the sooner the community moves
> away from Novell/SuSE products, the better. MS is not at a point where
> they can be trusted, yet--certainly not as long as Bill and Steve are
> anywhere close to the controls.
>
> I think this will be seen as a turning point somewhere down the road,
> the question is which way it will turn.
>
> The optimist in me likes to think that this is merely a sign of
> desperation on the part of both Novell and MS, that the momentum is so
> high on our side that MS' tea leaves are showing that Vista will be a
> bust.
>
> Then I am completely put off by the arrogance of the whole thing. MS
> is in effect scolding all of us over here for even daring to run, let
> alone develop our software. The fact is that MS has lost the mindshare
> and no amount of patent lawsuits will bring that back. The more they
> fight with patents, the more they will become a routing problem and
> soon an irrelevant entity.
>
> > Either way I have a healthy sceptcism of Microsoft's motives.
>
> Microsoft's motives are clear, they want to be dominant the player in
> IT. However, they've already lost the data center and they're about to
> lose more. They're in a vise and are responding in the only way they
> know how. Certainly, the patent litigation will be unpleasant, but
> they are doomed to fail.
>
Muchado about nothing (or not much). Why all the indignation.
Novell has already been working on interoperability with M$. Mono runs .net
stuff on a Linux box. So what's so bad about that?
I always felt the M$ hounding Robertson out of the Lindows name was soooo
obvious: M$ Lindows is coming!
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