[nylug-talk] Microsoft Linux

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Will this spearate Free Software from Open Source?
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On Sat, 4 Nov 2006 16:06:46 -0500 Nathan Eckenrode 
<Nathan at eckenrodehouse.net> wrote:
>On Saturday 04 November 2006 15:43, Ron Guerin wrote:
>> Tom Moran wrote:
>> > On Thursday night, I asked Jeff Jaffe, Novell's chief technology 
officer,
>> > if he could think of a company that had partnered with Microsoft and 
done
>> > really well as a result. Which Microsoft alliance, I asked him, would 
he
>> > cite as the model that he'd like to emulate?
>> >
>> > His response: "I think this partnership is breaking new ground."
>> >
>> > Um, right. Unfortunately, the new ground they're breaking is probably
>> > Novell's gravesite.
>>
>> History is littered with the corpses of Microsoft's "partners".  When I
>> used to take people on a sort of guided tour of PC Expo, when we'd pass
>> the "Microsoft Partner Pavilion", I'd always say some variation of "Take
>> a good look at those companies.  Those are the firms Microsoft will put
>> out of business next."
>>
>> - Ron
>> 
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>Not to air my own naivete out too much, but did not Apple enter into the 
same 
>sort of agreement with Microsoft in 1997? It seems as if that company 
faired 
>pretty well from the resulting exchange.
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