[nylug-talk] Microsoft Linux

[Ruben Safir]

The whole thing is as idiotic as the Sun fiasco a few years ago.
The whole thing is meaningless.

http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2006/11/ballmers_new_we.html

Novell posessed a wonderful oppurtunity at one point which it has mostly scoundered
with its own political infighting.

Its not the damage to Free Software that I worry about as much as the damage MS and SuSE
engineers can do specifically to GNOME.

Ruben

On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 05:28:00PM -0500, mlr52 at michaellrichardson.com wrote:
> 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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