On Mon, 04 Dec 2006 07:42:22 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> The Ides of March Approaches for Novell
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> | So, Novell now has something concrete to ponder - on or about the 15th
> | of March, 2007, they should expect to lose the right to distribute
> | updates and improvements to the very software that gives them their
> | precious "interoperability" with Windows - Samba. And they should expect
> | other projects to follow, leaving Novell and Microsoft to maintain their
> | own forks.
> `----
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> http://boycottnovell.com/2006/12/04/the-ides-of-march-approaches-for-novell/
>
> Shuttleworth comments on the deal in the Open Week IRC chats:
>
> http://boycottnovell.com/2006/12/04/more-shuttleworth-on-novell-microsoft/
... and now one major distro ill be isolated. How long before the others
are isolated and Linux based distos cease to be able to interact wth other
operating systems?
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Rick
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