__/ [ birre ] on Tuesday 24 April 2007 09:49 \__
> On 2007-04-23 17:44, John Bailo wrote:
>>
>> Justin Steinman on Novell: never been better
>>
>> http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/11546/1103/
>>
>>> Justin, for all those people who aren?t Linux users/fanatics and have
>>> only heard about the whole thing from the sidelines, what does the
>>> Novell / Microsoft deal represent, what does it mean?
>>>
>>> It means interoperability between Windows and SuSe Linux. You take one
>>> step back from that ? Novel and MS both believe in 5 years that there
>>> will be two dominant operating systems in the enterprise ? Windows and
>>> Linux ? and as much as Novell wants to see 100% data centre ? that?s
>>> not going to happen. How do I differentiate from Red Hat? We work with
>>> Windows.
>>
>
> I can't believe that Novell hasn't figured out yet that Microsoft will
> never make anything compatible with linux, and 100% market is what they
> work for.
>
> /birre
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| From: Bill Gates
| Sent: Sunday, January 24, 1999 8:41 AM
| To: Jeff Westorinen; Ben Fathi
| Cc: Carl Stork (Exchange); Nathan Myhrvold; Eric Rudder
| Subject: ACPI extensions
|
| One thing I find myself wondering about is whether we shouldn't try
| and make the "ACPI" extensions som
|
| It seems unfortunate if we do this work and get our partners to do the
| work and the results is that Linux...
|
| Maybe there is no way to avoid this problem but it does bother me.
|
| Maybe we could define the APIs so that they work well with NT and not
| the others even if they are open.
|
| Or maybe we could patent something related to this.
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