So Long, SuSE, We Hardly Knew Ye!

[ded]

On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 10:44:48AM -0500, Net Llama! wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Nov 2006, ded wrote:
> > I don't imagine Microsoft would do something where a) it didn't reap
> > a huge profit, b) hurt linux or c) both.

> > Greed and company profits aside, what I find most interesting
> > though is how are they going to deal with the GPL.

> As far as I can tell from the announcement, they aren't going to deal with
> it at all.  This seems to be little more than a means of driving sales
> opportunities for the two companies.  MS can get in the door with
> companies that distrust/hate MS but trust Novell/Linux, and vice-versa.

There seems to be a lot of loose ends in the announcement :)

As an aside, I've emailed several of my friends who work(ed) at SuSE
only to find out that they now are employed by MySQL. Apparently
these talks have been going on for some time now.

The most interesting reply I recieved back is that also included in
the agreement was Microsoft's guarantee not to sue over patent issues.
Talk about beating a dead horse...

ded
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