Re: [opensuse] OpenOffice 2.0.4, should one upgrade?
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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On Thursday 15 February 2007 12:31 am, Jay Smith wrote:
while on the subject, the other two things on the Novell MS pact also inclube interoperability, which is a big deal.
LinuxWorld: Other parts of the deal -- was there anything in there that was actually relevant to improving interoperability between --? Allison: No, I’m sorry. I know what you’re going to ask. I mean that part I found amusing rather than anything else because the whole point of it was saying that, oh, we’re going to improve interoperability. But if you look at it closely, I think it covers some very specific federated directory things, which essentially very few people in the world actually care about. What people really want is a second source Active Directory replacement. Let’s just say Novell was doing interesting work. That’s what Samba 4 is about, and they’re always doing a lot of interesting work there. But people who think that Microsoft will now give the information that is needed in order to do that to Novell just because of this deal are delusional. What you have to think about is that essentially Microsoft has been fighting tooth and nail not to give away any of this information to free software projects. So, they may think that just because they signed some patent cross licensing deal with Novell -- even though Microsoft really, really wanted the patent cross licensing deal, just because they signed that, do you think they’re going to give away stuff that they essentially have fought absolutely and completely against the EU and paid billions of dollars in fines to avoid. So, no, that’s not going to happen. Read full article here: http://www.itworldcanada.com/a/Daily-News/c11627ed-d99b-49d2-983d-d228561818... Bryan **************************************** Powered by Mepis Linux 6.0 KDE 3.5.3 KMail 1.9.3 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson bryantyson@earthlink.net **************************************** -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Thu 15 Feb 2007 05:31, Jay Smith wrote:
it's not easy for many businesses to have both Linux and Windows in the office
- Virtual Machines are doing their Miracle . . . looks like it IS becoming 'easy' :) friendly greetings -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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