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> westelsolutions wrote:
>
>>
>> Ballmer Invites Patent Talks with Competing Linux Vendors
>> November 3, 2006
>> By John Pallatto
>> SAN FRANCISCO-Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said his company is open to
>> talking to other Linux distributors about reaching mutual patent
>> coverage deals similar to the agreement signed Nov. 2 with Novell.
>
> Novel 'transparency' requires novel to come clean
> on micoshaft agreements and when did it all start etc,
> and what is the master plan.
>
> For starters, what is this patent protection racket plan all about?
>
> It seems micoshaft / novel alliance is being used as
> a brick bat to bash other Linux vendors who don't
> enter the micoshaft fold.
They also try to corner Linux, making it secondary (in a VM?) in the edge of
the datacentres. They have Novell as a slave whose grip on Linux project can
be used by Microsoft. They become a puppet that will, among many thing,
incorporate Microsoft's formats into Open Source projects (e.g. OpenOffice).
Linux-to-be software houses could soon be advised to adopt a so-called
'mixed environment' where SUSE Linux entails some royalties.
Novell chose the short route with the short-term benefits (e.g. pleasing the
investors and getting Red Hat into deeper trouble). I hope they'll get
whipped.
Microsoft's plan:
win-get opensuse
http://windows-get.sourceforge.net/index.php
This whole scenario comes to show why having indepedent companies working on
Linux in parallel is a good thing. Novell has lost, but Linux wins. I bet
Noorda flips in his grave right now...
Best wishes,
Roy
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