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Re: [News] Interoperabilit Going Well, Without Microsoft's Help

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On Sun, 22 Jul 2007 03:12:50 +0100,
 Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> ____/ Jim Richardson on Saturday 21 July 2007 23:31 : \____
>
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>> On Sat, 21 Jul 2007 13:32:16 +0100,
>>  Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> ____/ Mark Kent on Saturday 21 July 2007 10:09 : \____
>>>
>>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>>> ____/ John Locke on Saturday 21 July 2007 04:05 : \____
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Fri, 20 Jul 2007 14:53:54 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Interoperability Without Patent Agreements. Really.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> | Mark explained that Zenoss has kicked off the development process with
>>>>>>> | the two ZenPacks (mentioned above) that will allow full
>>>>>>> | interoperability with Microsoft Exchange and SQL Server. And no, they
>>>>>>> | didn't make a patent deal; they used Samba functionality. Imagine
>>>>>>> | that.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Interoperability was never Microsoft's intention. The patent deals are
>>>>>> scare tactics aimed at forcing customers into using Microsoft taxed
>>>>>> products. Inexcusable and unethical behavior that I hope bites them
>>>>>> in the end.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Yes, I concur entirely.
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Along with their brutal attacks on GPLv3, ably assisted by open-source
>>>> luminaries who should know better.
>>>  
>>> ESR, who is on Linspire board, has been eerily quiet ever since his
>>> attack on Fedora (CCs to editors and harsh words that led to a storm).
>>> Prior to that, he also kept silent for a very long time after
>>> provoking muslims in his blog (and getting death threats as a result).
>>>
>> 
>> ? What did he do to provoke muslims?
>
> Watch his blog. I wouldn't want to start discussing this this (I suppose
> neither would you). Whether his points were valid or not, it was not about
> technology.
>


You already started discussing it. 

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