Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> ____/ Mark Kent on Monday 10 December 2007 07:32 : \____
>
>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>> ____/ Mark Kent on Friday 07 December 2007 13:39 : \____
>>>
>>>> birre <spamtrap@xxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>>> On 2007-12-05 23:55, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>>>> Novell to release Silverlight clone for Linux
>>>>>
>>>>> Novell don't understand what they have :-/
>>>>>
>>>>> Now they give Microsoft the trigger button where all media
>>>>> at any time can be DRM only, locking us out from Internet,
>>>>> instead of only using open formats until Internet is liberated
>>>>> from Microsofts proprietary evil junk.
>>>>>
>>>>> /bb
>>>>
>>>> I think Novell understand very well what they have...
>>>>
>>>
>>> Yesterday (and no, I didn't post this to c.o.l.a.):
>>>
>>> http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1020
>>>
>>> As part of Novell?s arrangement with Microsoft, Microsoft also is
>>> providing
>>> financial incentives to Novell to get Silverlight on Linux, de Icaza added.
>>>
>>> ?Microsoft agreed to pay all the licensing and patent fees for
>>> redistributing the (Silverlight) codecs,? de Icaza said. ?We don?t have the
>>> Microsoft codecs for Silverlight now. So we can not yet do streaming. ? But
>>> it?s coming.?
>>>
>>
>> I wonder just how much of Novell's income is from Microsoft now, rather
>> a lot, I suspect. I also wonder just how easy to determine this it will
>> be from their annual accounts, which are, I understand, in delay.
>
> Rightly so. In case you have not listening to/read this the other day, here it
> is again:
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/12/07/open_season_seven/
>
> Wow. Confirmation of 'funny business' (finance) and loss of talent. They also
> try to shut Matt Asay up so that he doesn't talk about it (but he did, and I
> put it all in text).
>
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Just grabbing it for a listen...
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