Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (144 mails)

[Volker Kuhlmann <list0570@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> MS pays a lot of money for SLE coupons..??
> 
> It doesn't make sense. I can see three possible explanations.
> 
> 1) MS paid hundreds of millions of USD for the ability to FUD about 
> interoperability with "Linux", office "open" xml and harm Red Hat. Doesn't 
> seem realistic, though.

Seems very realistic to me. Microsoft avoided a crush from the
government as soon as right-wing came in. That right-wing now just about
went out again. Also, Europe is hard on Billy's heals and it's looking
to me like they're not taking as much Ballmer Bull as Georgy. Microsoft
needs to be *seen* to be cooperative (of course we all know that
cooperation is always only exactly as strong as thumb-screw pressure).
Being able to FUD here is valuable to Microsoft.

I'm certainly not going to give up on SUSE just because Novell did a
deal with Microsoft. I'd want a real reason. Plus there's little
competition which is a technically advanced as SUSE.

Volker

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