[QCLUG] novell and microsoft agreements good or bad

Leif Theden leif.theden@gmail.com
Tue, 7 Nov 2006 19:53:00 -0600


ha.  well i personally wont miss suse.

On 11/7/06, McKnight, Lee <LMcKnight@bandag.com> wrote:
> I agree with Noah - this can't be anything good for open source/Linux.
> Especially the way that documents can be shared by both environments
> (M$Office/OO), but what's that?  The documents won't be 100% sharable?
> That must mean M$Office documents can share OO documents 100%, but OO
> can only share 90% of M$Office document features?  Gee, do you suppose
> that's because if they were 100% sharable there would be no reason to
> purchase M$Office?  Naw, that can't be it, there must be a better
> argument than that.  Hmm, I wonder what that could be...
>
> Have you ever seen a company that partnered with M$oft that wasn't out
> of business in a few years?
>
> Mac....
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: qclug-bounces@qclug.org [mailto:qclug-bounces@qclug.org] On Behalf
> Of Noah J Norris
> Sent: Monday, November 06, 2006 7:23 AM
> To: qclug@qclug.org
> Subject: [QCLUG] novell and microsoft agreements good or bad
>
> 	I've been reading more and more about microsoft and novell
> working together .
> Whats everyones take on this . from what i have read its not good and
> can bring another sco type case against linux.
>
> link
> http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/node/1851
>
>
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