On 11/15/2006 04:56 PM, Marcel Mourguiart wrote:
Of course they are not telling the real story, but i think they are actually telling all the facts.
Why they do this ? ( the patent part ) Money baby, money. MS is going to give Novell a huge amount of money and right know they need it. Novell are having problem in every field of business except opensource which is growing, the problem here is that Novell could get out of business before the opensource business can grow enough to replace the other part of the business. This deal give Novell time and right know time is all what they need.
That's fine, if that's what they're doing. Then they should tell the engineers: "Look guys, we really needed the cash so we could keep feeding you and your families. We know this is risky, but we have great lawyers and we hope it's all going to be ok. We hope you'll stick with us through this." They could maybe give the public a slightly shinier version of that story. If they said something like that I would have a great deal of faith that that was pretty close to the truth. The fact that they are telling a story that is CLEARLY not the whole truth makes me wonder just how bad the truth is. The fact that they are telling this story to their own engineers makes me angry.
Why MS pay money for this ? Of course the deal suggest MS can sue every Linux customer because of patents, why costumer need such protection if there is no problem ?, doesn't matter that's not really true, FUD don't need the true. IS going to work ? i don't think so, but i think Perens and the other Fuders are doing a great job helping MS. But the SCO shows thats this kind of FUD doesn't work, by the way, Red Hat and Novell give they customer protections against the SCO in the past, that's mean they was working with SCO or MS ?, no and nobody ever said that, know is the same, but RH is not included in the party.
IBM have deals with Microsoft, i work with IBM HP have deals with Microsoft, i work with HP SUN have deals with Microsoft, i work with SUN
I don't think a deal with MS is a good reason to doesn't work with a company, in fact i work with MS too.
I agree. The deal with MS in itself may not be a huge problem. For instance I feel very good about Sun right now. The disinformation IS a huge problem.
Sorry for my bad English.
Bad? Ha! You should read my French!
-- Marcel Mourguiart
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