__/ [ Nick Ballard ] on Wednesday 28 March 2007 04:37 \__
> On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 19:45:13 -0700, flyer wrote:
>
>>
>> Dell may have sold Win on their machines but they didn't sell their soul
>> to do it (I hope). They will have to VERY carefully extract themselves
>> from the Redmond sludge pit though.
>>
>> Novell, in an insane death wish mode, sold it's soul to the MS Devil and
>> will die or just become another unimportant department within MS, and
>> subject to MS whims.
>
>
> I can't figure out if Dell is just buying time by dangling the Linux
> carrot in front of prospective customers, or if they really are on to
> something brilliant. Hopefully it will be the latter.
Some would say that they want discounts from Microsoft, but a message that I
saw this morning (TuxMachines, probably from a Dell employee although it's
not confirmed) makes it seem inevitable. Dell is currently determined to
offer Linux. The question is /which distro/. Also, I wonder what the price
will be and whether it'll be available outside the US (hmm... I should say
"would", not "will").
> Novell, on the other hand, will probably die a slow and painful death at
> the hands of MS. A patent agreement between the two companies over Linux
> applications sounded like a terrible idea from the very beginning, and
> over time we will probably see terrible things come of it.
Microsoft has Novell on a leash now. They just haven't got around to
completely destroying it, yet. I guess Opensuse/SLED truly became a huge
threat to the monopoly. Given the right price (execs may have received
benefits, other than the $0.3 billion the company), the soul of this company
was sold. It's a good think Noorda is no longer around to witness this.
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