[QCLUG] novell and microsoft agreements good or bad

[Jim Kristan]

Here is John Dvorak's take on this, he has good in site, or good
sources in the past.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2052320,00.asp

On 11/7/06, Leif Theden <leif.theden@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
> >
> >
> > --
> > life is linux
> > linux is life
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