It's not heresy at all. The ODF Alliance has no real problem with it. The new Microsoft XML format and ODF don't work together yet. With this plan, they will. ODF will still be ODF and MS XML will be MS XML. They are just making sure they translate each other. OpenOffice is it's own project handled by Sun, not Novell. Novell is just a contributor, there is no way Microsoft could stamp everyhing except if they patented the translator which I don't think they'll do (but I wouldn't put it past them) while on the subject, the other two things on the Novell MS pact also inclube interoperability, which is a big deal. Honestly, it's not easy for many businesses to have both Linux and Windows in the office and some don't have the time to use Samba. By that I mean, they need to have their businesses going. They can't take time off to learn Linux. If the two can work well together, then they can still use Windows and linux with less trouble. let face it, once businesses began to adopt linux more, then consumers will. Once that happens, we'll see a lot more support for it. Also more software and drivers available as well as codecs and what not. Finally, virtualization. Again, what's the big deal. So They want to figure out how to get Xen to work on Windows so they can virtualize Linux on Windows and vice versa. That wouldn't be such a bad idea, would it. I like to play some windows games that don't work so well on Wine. You forget that legally, Microsoft can't take over Linux. The GPL prevents them from doing so, the most Microsoft can do is help it work better with Windows because right now, the two don't play nice without a lot of expert configuration. Even without the GPL, do you think the community would ever allow Microsoft to just take over. We have mob rule as an open source community. All MS can do is contribute and anything they develop into Linux, it will be Open. But this isn't about MS, just wanted to throw that out there.
... because it will be the one that has *Microsoft* stamped all over it. No, not really, no. You DO remember the M$-Novell heresy don't you?
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