On Saturday, November 11, 2006 @ 8:05 AM, Michael Letourneau wrote:
On Friday 10 November 2006 23:56, John Andersen wrote:
On Friday 10 November 2006 18:40, J Sloan wrote:
I would think it's quite obvious - it's a double standard. Either it's OK to be involved with microsoft, or it's not. You can't have it both ways.
Sure he can. Who appointed you king?
One can be involved in microsoft in the paid software world and be disinclined to be involved with microsoft in the free software world.
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.
I think what most of us are thinking and trying to say is that it is entirely hypocritical on his point. Its OK for him to make a living and earn money from having to deal with windows, but because Novell has to do the same thing, he is saying its wrong.
It IS exactly the same thing. Just because Novell is larger does not mean it was not looking at its finacial future and realizing that it had to do this
to make it through a hard point.
We are not saying that he is evil for dealing with Microsoft. We are saying that he is being hypocritical by holding others to standards that he himself does not feel. And he is perfectly allowed to feel that way, BUT, it definitely lets us know exactly where he is coming from.
Michael
Well, there's having to make a living and having an opinion about something used where you work, and they may be different. You can say it's hypocritical, but does a person have to refuse to work for a company that uses Windows in order to refuse to form a voluntary relationship with a company (Novell) that is partnering with Microsoft? I. e., I will risk starving to death based on principle because of my dislike of Microsoft and not work for any company that associates with them, that way I can maintain my principles in order to be able to avoid any voluntary association with anyone who has anything to do with Microsoft? Regarding the deal itself, I personally haven't been able to discern any guaranteed doomsday scenario coming out of the Microsoft Novell collaboration, though I think Novell had better have read all of the fine print before signing onto the deal. Greg Wallace --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org