Re: [SLE] Novell-Microsoft: What They Aren't Telling You

On Friday 03 November 2006 22:38, Per Qvindesland wrote:
Totally Agree, Linux is bigger then the US, much bigger if the US wants
to make it's bed with M$ then fine but don't think that the rest of the
world is going to follow, to many companies, goverments and
municipalities has put to much time and effort getting a Linux solution
working that they will allow M$ to come in with their weird US rules and
try to push it on them.

An extremely valid point. We here in the USSA have been sitting happily on the
top of the totem pole for way too long and have become - IMO - fat, lazy and
arrogant. We seem to think that we can drive the world's processes by
enforcement here at home.

Unfortunately, many people here don't realize that large portions of the rest
of the world don't really care what we here in the US think or do, and will
continue on. I am personally very happy that software companies like
Canonical and Mandriva are outside the US and far away from the idiotic
patent madness that engulfs our every move (or lack thereof) here. (In my
opinion, software can never be patented. Copyrighted yes, but not patented.)



M$ has been trying their stunts for years, and this latest actually
tells me that their in more trouble then what they really want to admit,
comeon it's not excatly for free to develop and release M$ vista or
2003, nor IE7 for that matter so I have a good suspicion that their bank
account must be starting to feel the pressure.

Not hardly. Yes, they've been trying these things for years, hence the concept
of FUD. That's - in my opinion - what they're trying to stir up. If they can
get Hoveson to pony up to the table in order to chip away at Ellison, then
that's fine. Microsoft won't hurt any more than they already are.

Last I checked, MS had around $30b in cash hanging around. Enough to buy a
small duplex in westide Los Angeles They are expecting to release NT 6
pretty soon, and have a new back office suite waiting to go (SQL 2005 is out
and others are coming).

They simply need to restart the FUD campain to scare others away from Open
Source. Again I was at a friend's house this morning fixing their infected
XP SP2 system and discussing how I never get viruses and my software "Just
works." The response back was, "can I open Outlook Express emails in linux?"

Sigh...

Regards
Per

On Sat, 2006-11-04 at 00:22 -0600, Darryl Gregorash wrote:
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