____/ Mark Kent on Wednesday 08 August 2007 10:36 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> ____/ Mark Kent on Tuesday 07 August 2007 19:36 : \____
>>
>>> waterskidoo <water.skidoo@xxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>> On 2007-08-07, John Bailo, Texeme.Construct <jabailo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_id=013001BYESWN
>>>>>
>>>>> "Lenovo will be preloading some of its ThinkPad notebook PCs with
>>>>> Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10"
>>>>
>>>> This is great for Linux!
>>>> I'm sure the Novell haters will be going ahead full steam though.
>>
>> Not necessarily. Some people condemn this, but I personally do not. It's a
>> tad unfortunate, but it's an important step nonethelss. Lenovo already has
>> Ubuntu and Fedora certified for the newest laptop. This means that later on
>> there will be choice. You will not be forced to pay SLED tax, part of which
>> goes to Ballmer's bank account.
>
> I see nothing wrong with Lenovo offering whatever flavour of linux their
> customers want; my issue would be more with Novell for reaching that
> appalling agreement in the first place.
>
>>
>>> You'd be supportive of the cross-licensing deals with Microsoft, then?
>>> I remain suspicious of your motives.
>>
>> Some said that Dell would offer SUSE as a choice, but they never did.
>> Remember that Dell 'joined' the Microsoft/Novell deal, whatever that means
>> (makes you wonder if they pay Microsoft for Linux behind everyone's back).
>> It happened a month before they started selling Ubuntu GNU/Linux.
>>
>
> No details ever emerged from that which I can recall now. I wonder what
> they did agree to?
They never exactly said all that much. They vlogged about it (video blog) and I
took some notes in the blog so that I can look at them later. The speaker
mentioned IP and there were some words that sort of give away a thing or two.
We also talked about it in COLA and it might prove useful in the future if
Dell says something about that deal. It has been 100% silent about since then.
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