[nylug-talk] Microsoft Linux

[mylar]

On Fri, 2006-11-03 at 15:10, Dale Harris wrote:
> 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?
> 

Those same thoughts have crossed my mind. But I'm not a sys admin so I
don't fully appreciate/understand the implications and/or benefits of
this move. Much of what I read has left me in a  fog.


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