Microsoft, Novell and Unintended Consequences
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| If Microsoft is willing to make a legal deal with Novell on Linux,
| why shouldn't it do the same with the global 2000 customers it
| sells to? Novell might be gone in a few years, but General
| Electric will still be around. So will Russia, China, Brazil,
| India and Massachusetts.
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| Remember when AOL thought it was doing the world's researchers a big favor
| and made a boatload of online user behavior data openly available?
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| Remember the unintended consequences?
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| It became fairly easy to link up user preference data with some actual
| identifiable users. Users were upset, AOL looked pretty goofy, and they
| apologized and back-tracked.
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| [...]
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| Well, thanks to Microsoft Latest News about Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's
| recent transparency on his beliefs about Linux and Windows, we have a
| similar unintended educational consequence in the works.
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| [...]
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| According to a recent survey at least partially backed by IBM, Linux has
| never been more attractive.
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