into electronic streams flowing thru the cosmos On Sunday 05 November 2006 9:34 am, Tom Patton wrote:
On Sun, 2006-11-05 at 01:30 -0900, John Andersen wrote:
On Sunday 05 November 2006 01:23, Anders Johansson wrote:
No, the support will come from Novell. Microsoft will only sell licenses (and obviously only to customers who insist on running linux, don't expect them to push this hard)
Microsoft will hand out scraps of paper. They will not SELL anything. Go back ad read the announcement again.
Who gives a rat's whether BG sells or gives away the slips of paper he buys from Novell? He's got enough money as it is. He is facilitating and soothing anxiety for his customers who want or need the LINUX solution. It is a bridge for both companies.
I've disliked MS since they crushed CPM, but this seems like a business fact of life solution. My concern is that somehow unknown to us he thinks this is a method to crush the GPL. Time will tell.
What he thinks and what is reality are *NOT*t the same thing. His customers , many of them, moved to linux servers when MS got very obnoxious and began swooping into companies as if they were the incarnation Jedger ( Hoover) himself taking down a Meth lab.. Claiming the business they are "investigating" is cheating them and somehow the allegations always made nightly news headlines. However when they found "compliance squads" were often being called in by disgruntled former employees they began to quit doing it. But it left a bad taste in the mouths of companies who were doing nothing wrong.. they looked into and many switched to various distros . Suddenly there were real world cases of businesses making successful use of Linux various solutions.. and next thing, the bigger boys are beginning to see the light, even if just to put a layer between the desktop and the outside world. It hasn't helped that the continued attacks that have been known to take down whole companies ... -- j