Re: Faustian Pact between Novell and Microsoft

From: Gene Heskett
Date: Tue Nov 07 2006 - 12:51:52 EST


On Tuesday 07 November 2006 11:54, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
>Bernd Petrovitsch wrote:
>>On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 09:18 +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
>>[...]
>>
>>>This is a watershed moment for Linux. It fundamentally changes the
>>>rules of the game. We're really excited about this deal, and we hope
>>>you are too.
>>>
>>>
>>>(from http://www.novell.com/linux/microsoft/openletter.html) only make
>>>it worse, but acquisition? I'd hope not even mickey$oft has enough
>>>cash for _that_.
>>
>>And the first point in the list is "patents" ....
>>
>> Bernd
>
>I can see the lights are coming on now for some folks now.
>
>Jeff

The 'lights' have been on for quite some time Jeff, but getting our govmnt
to recognize that is going to take some housecleaning, which I intend to
do in the ballotbox yet this afternoon.

Wish us good luck in that endeavor folks.

--
Cheers, Gene
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