2006/11/15, Saill White <saill.white@openlina.com>:
On 11/15/2006 01:50 PM, Marcel Mourguiart wrote:
>
>> The same deal, make me talk with our IT manager to start considering
>> Novell Suse ( we are using Red Hat right know ), i don't see nothing but
>> benefits for this deal.
>>
>> So i would like to know what are the exact part of this deal, that make
>> you step back from Novell.
> --
> Marcel Mourguiart
My fear comes from the fact that I have a strong sense that the Novell executives are not being honest about their reasons for the deal, and I believe they are withholding crucial details of it even from their own engineers. C'mon, if they've been trying to explain it to the Suse engineers for weeks now and they still don't get it, it's because the story doesn't make sense. I know for a fact that those guys aren't stupid.
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.
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.
Read again all the critics, and all what you are going to find are "feelings" not facts, because the facts are not terrible ... except for one player, wish was not invited to the party ( RH ).
Sorry for my bad English.