[QCLUG] novell and microsoft agreements good or bad

[Jim Kristan]

An old proverb says, "If you sup with the devil bring a long spoon"

On 11/9/06, Noah J Norris <preludelinux@mchsi.com> wrote:
> yeah i read this artical too ...
>
> on other news redhat thinks there gona be the only big distro in a couple
> years ... wonder why
>
> whats microsoft real plan for doing this  ??? leak ip/code to sue ??? go
> after
> samba and mono projects ( guess suse works with mono alot ) ( mono =
> opensource .net implamtation ) i hate rabbit holes ....... does novall own
> the unix ip from sco suit ...... could this bring another sco type suit even
> fud another microsft funded law suit not directly connected .....
>
> yes i think any type of wedge would fail cause of linuxs growth but could
> this
> be also a way to port microsoft office to linux making sure nothings open
> source . i dont think theres a wedge to make the kernel closed source and
> all
> the gpl apps correct if so it would only be for microsofts interface maybe
> they will make a layer to run windows software fully on linux yet charge a
> full fee for it . maybe we could see window gui on top of linux kernel  . i
> think alot of these will not happen maybe office they would make money (
> perhapes they would charge for the copy of office plus the windows layer so
> like 300-600 ... lol ) .
>
> why is novall doing this , i mean how many times do they have to get it in
> the
> rear .... novall netwear anyone. we will have to wait and see what happens
> out of this .
>
> maybe theres no evil intent at all , but i can not even think this with
> microsofts track record .
>
> On Tuesday 07 November 2006 21:30, Jim Kristan wrote:
> > 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
> > > >
> > > >
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