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miriam_eDell joins Microsoft, Novell in Linux collaboration
Dell is backing the Windows-Linux partnership set up by Microsoft and Novell. As part of the deal, Dell will buy Suse Linux Enterprise Server certificates from Microsoft for corporate customers that are not already using Linux, the computer maker said Monday.
http://www.arnnet.com.au/index.php?id=1582094200&eid=-4152
Sneaky MS bastards are up to something...
Dell is backing the Windows-Linux partnership set up by Microsoft and Novell. As part of the deal, Dell will buy Suse Linux Enterprise Server certificates from Microsoft for corporate customers that are not already using Linux, the computer maker said Monday.
http://www.arnnet.com.au/index.php?id=1582094200&eid=-4152
Sneaky MS bastards are up to something...
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Date: 2007-05-09 04:04 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-05-09 06:15 am (UTC)Suse have struck a deal to be exempt from any legal attacks Microsoft is threatening to bring against Linux for IP. (Other than the badly named "Start" button and the equally badly named "taskbar" I can't imagine what Microsoft have added to the world of computing.)
Almost every example of competitors striking deals with Microsoft that I know of has ended with the competitor being crippled. It happened to Corel. And the revolutionary LiquidReality ceased to exist immediately on doing a deal with Microsoft.
I wonder if this is how it will go?
They will funnel money into Suse for a while to make them appear to do well out of the deal. Other Linux companies will be attracted to the honey-bait and some will accept deals with MS also. Then when they think they've got all the mileage they can out of it MS will close the trap and those companies will quietly fold up and die. It will eliminate a number of MS competitors and make a lot of corporate customers worry about using products from what they'll perceive as flakey Linux brands.
It's like the old fables about doing deals with the devil. :)
I'm amazed at how quickly people forget about the leaked Halloween Docs that Microsoft commissioned on how to destroy Linux and the open source community, and developing a strategy for owning the internet.
an intro:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_documents
the documents themselves:
http://www.catb.org/~esr/halloween/