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[News] CRN Covers the Community Division Novell Has Brought

Microsoft-Novell Deal: Has It Divided The Linux Community?

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| So far, the answer seems to be yes on both counts. By and large,
| Linux developers see the deal as an unwelcome intrusion by
| Microsoft, a huge and unabashedly proprietary vendor, into the
| open source world, where software development is highly
| collaborative, a lot of code is available free of charge, and
| vendor business models are frequently based more on service
| contracts than on software licensing.
| 
| Linux organizations that sounded disapproval for the
| Microsoft/Novell plan range from Red Hat to smaller Linux
| distributors such as Linspire and Mandriva, and open source
| projects such as Samba, a group that includes even some 
| Novell employees. 
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http://www.crn.com/sections/breakingnews/breakingnews.jhtml?articleId=197000520&cid=CRNBreakingNews
http://tinyurl.com/33bgno




-- 
List of candidate Microsoft astroturfers (directly or indirectly paid by
Microsoft to post in this newsgroup):

        flatfish+++
        Damian O'Leary (AKA Hadron Quark)
        Erik Funkenbusch
        Larry Qualig (former Microsoft employee)
        Scott Nudds (AKA Vistaking)
        Nedd Ludd
        Tim Smith
        OK
        DFS
        Terry

Take everything posted by the individuals above with a barrel of salt.

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