"In all good time!"
Posted on 11/06/2006 8:04:56 AM PST by Halfmanhalfamazing
Microsoft has announced a partnership with Novell and will help promote Linux.
This is stunning. This is like Red Sox fans announcing they're going to root for the Yankees.
Microsoft has spent ten years bashing the free-of-charge open-source Linux operating system and trying to kill it. Now Microsoft is making nice.
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
Can we now look forward to security attacks aimed at Linux, and a gazillion monthly security updates?
If microsoft starts coding for linux, then it's very possible.
But for right now it's just promotion.
ping
"In all good time!"
I don't know their aims but it could be good news. Excellent infrastructure around a good conservative (no pan) kernel would be welcome. And it would give Sun something to think about.
Whatever they are I hope the whole upshot of this move is that programs that run on Windows will now be ported to Linux.
The same as always, to get paid for their intellectual property, instead of giving it away for free like leftist Richard Stallman wants. In this case, Novell has agreed to pay them patent royalties for Linux, while MS tries to sell Novell Linux to their customers. Might not work for Novell though, since most existing Linux users have an unending hatred of Microsoft, and would apparently rather just download stuff from DVD Jon in Amsterdam than worry about properly paying for their IP. Still, there may be enough new interest in Novell to make up for it, only time will tell.
We Linux users, of SUSE and other distributions, are properly paying.
I'd spell it out in more detail, but I've seen your posts here before. No sense wasting my precious keystrokes.
No, a lie is claiming that most users of Fedora and Ubuntu Linux, the 2 most popular distributions, are paying to use legal MP3 and DVD players with their Linux. They don't ship with one, I doubt most could even tell you how to actually do it legally. Here's an article that admits it, since you refuse to.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,124519-page,1/article.html
To stay out of court and use the money to try and innovate.
Winux XP
Not likey. There was some Linux coding done to ship the Virtual Server R2 Linux additions, but that's pretty much been doled out to Xen.
What are your thoughts on this? What's the catch?
If that is the case then this could get real interesting.
^^^^^^^^^^^^instead of giving it away for free like leftist Richard Stallman wants.^^^^^^^^^^^^^
How about like pragmatic Linus Torvalds wants?
>>This is stunning. This is like Red Sox fans announcing they're going to root for the Yankees.<<
It really feels more like the Yankees paying off a minor league Boston team to make sure the Red Sox are no longer a threat.
It's possible that this is the first step in merging OS types so that we'll eventually get everyone working on variations on only one OS--kinda like how Linux and the BSDs are related.
These are just musings, though. I'll be watching this with some interest, anyway.
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