Oracle must eat Red Hat or fork, says Ubuntu man
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| "Fundamentally, I think Microsoft is making an intellectual property
| play. The second thing is 'follow the money.' We see $240m from
| Microsoft and $40m back from Novell.
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| "They are looking to establish, I believe, a framework which gives
| them a revenue base regardless of the OS.
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| "We haven't seen the details of the deal. Novell hasn't seen the real
| plan. The industry is littered with companies that have fought with
| Microsoft, then went to Microsoft as a cowered partner to do some
| small deal and then just got axed. Palm, Sybase and, um, Novell."
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/11/10/shuttleworth_oracle/
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