[nylug-talk] Microsoft Linux

[Dale Harris]

On 2006-11-03 at 13:22, Sunny Dubey <sunny at opencurve.org> elucidated:
> On Friday 03 November 2006 12:14, alex khalil wrote:
> 
> >   Well, almost: Microsoft will support Novell's SUSE Linux
> 
> maybe its an attempt to belittle Redhat ??
> 
> 1) Oracle and MSFT/Novell can claim some sort of IP protection, Redhat can't
> 

Is this perhaps motivated more by Oracle's move?  Microsoft is just
trying to trump them, rather than any real concern about Linux?  Or
trying to kill two birds with one stone.  Steal Oracle's thunder and
co-opt Linux, too?


Dale