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Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> __/ [ Mark Kent ] on Sunday 26 November 2006 09:31 \__
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>> Rex Ballard <rex.ballard@xxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>> Here's Novell's side of the story
>>>
>>> Open Letter to the Community from Novell
>>> http://www.novell.com/linux/microsoft/community_open_letter.html
>>><quote>
>>> On November 2, Novell and Microsoft announced a significant, multi-part
>>> agreement to work together to improve the interoperability between
>>> Linux and Windows and for Microsoft to redistribute more than 350,000
>>> subscriptions for SUSE Linux Enterprise to the Windows customer base
>>> over a five-year period.
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>> hahaha! Do the Novell board really believe that this will happen? No,
>> of course they don't. What they've done is got $260mio into the coffers
>> of Novell inc., which will ensure that the board members get to trouser
>> a really good bonus this year. I suggest that everyone looks out for
>> the bonuses of Novell board members this year, and perhaps next year,
>> indeed, over this full five-year period, as the real story will emerge
>> at that point.
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> Nail. Head.
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> Novell Hikes Execs' Pay
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>| Open source software maker Novell said last Friday its board approved
>| the increase of its president and chief executive's base salary to
>| US$825,000 per year.
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> http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/53226.html
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Being right is great, but I don't usually get to be right quite so
quickly :-)
Always follow the money.
Anyway, all those people out there writing code which Novell sell on -
your code has been used to provide the Novell Board with pay rises, and
they're agreeing that *you* are in the firing line for a Microsoft legal
attack!
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