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Re: [opensuse] Re: [SLE] A five year deal with Microsoft to dump Novell/SUSE
- From: James Knott <james.knott@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2006 07:40:45 -0500
- Message-id: <4557164D.6040600@xxxxxxxxxx>
JJ Gitties wrote:
> I still think I was onto something with the suggestion that if Microsoft
> turned around and said all the money they collect from Novell on this
> they will dump it all back into OSS projects, that would generate a lot
> of good press and good will amongst the community and people would not
> be so hostile to them off the bat.
If you care to look at the numbers in that deal, MS pays Novell far more
than Novell pays MS, so perhaps they already are doing that indirectly.
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> I still think I was onto something with the suggestion that if Microsoft
> turned around and said all the money they collect from Novell on this
> they will dump it all back into OSS projects, that would generate a lot
> of good press and good will amongst the community and people would not
> be so hostile to them off the bat.
If you care to look at the numbers in that deal, MS pays Novell far more
than Novell pays MS, so perhaps they already are doing that indirectly.
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