____/ Mark Kent on Friday 09 November 2007 18:28 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> Is it Microsoft + Novell or Microsoft vs. Novell?
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>| Actually, this is very surprising. I've started to notice a trend in all
>>| the announcements the two companies have made over the past year: Novell
>>| stresses interoperability while Microsoft beats its drum on patent
>>| protection.
>>|
>>| [...]
>>|
>>| I wonder how long Microsoft will continue its efforts to try to cast the
>>| deal as about IP. It's not for Novell, it seems to me now. Microsoft did
>>| the deal to hurt Linux - there's no other explanation for it. It has no
>>| fiduciary duty to enable a competitor (unless its a weaker competitor
>>| against the Linux market leader, Red Hat). It has a fiduciary duty to kill
>>| that competitor.
>> `----
>>
>>
http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9813681-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad
>>
>
> I suspect that this story is as much about Microsoft trying to find some
> way of building a successful business going forward. Vista has been a
> desperate disaster, Xbox burns down houses, zune is, err, what? Anyone
> know what it is? Office is being replaced by openoffice.org everywhere.
>
> Microsoft desperately need some new way of taxing PC users.
They replace Windows tax (buying a PC with Windows) with Linux tax.
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