____/ BearItAll on Thursday 16 August 2007 14:14 : \____
> chrisv wrote:
>
>> Kier wrote:
>>
>>>On Thu, 16 Aug 2007 08:27:51 +0100, BearItAll wrote:
>>>>
>>>> There is also the point that MS still has the majority of desktops,
>>>> Linux has no choice but to work with MS at some levels. If you want to
>>>> make a difference in this world you have to be inside the tent pissing
>>>> out, not outside the tent pissing in.
>>>
>>>Exactly. Novell and others don't have the luxury of shunning MS if they
>>>want to get on in the world.
>>
>> But you don't have to join (legally) with them to work (be compatible)
>> with them.
>>
>> In other words, there's a happy medium between kicking them in the
>> nuts and giving them a big sloppy kiss.
>
> Though it is probably advisable to kick them in the nuts first otherwise
> they run away when you try to kiss them. At least, that's what my
> experience has taught me.
Novell has no nuts. Neither does Microsoft. The only balls Microsoft has are in
Ballmer's name.
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