Mark Kent wrote:
> begin oe_protect.scr
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> > Seattle is perhaps worried about the looming employment levels. Watch the
> > headline...
> >
> > Microsoft says it's willing, but Red Hat rejects alliance
> >
> > Offer follows deal to make Linux, Windows compatible
> >
> > http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/292702_msftredhat17.html
> >
> > So never mind the fact that Microsoft has just thrown accusation at Linux
> > users, essentially arguing that they owe Microsoft some money. Ballmer never
> > said /what/ Linux infringes on (let alone what Linux can sue Microsoft for,
> > as the pact with Novell would seem to suggest). The article doesn't mention
> > Microsoft's real intentions which are to instill fear in the minds of
> > prospective Linux users (companies).
> >
> > Here's an interview that was published today.
> >
> > RedHat's response: Interview with Mark Webbink (RedHat)
> >
> > ,----[ Quote ]
> >| "The recent addition of indemnification was only a secondary move
> >| intended to quiet the noise that a handful of vendors in the industry
> >| keep making about suing customers over intellectual property. Youw
> >| ould have thought they would have learned a lesson from SCO's actions
> >| in that regard, i.e., threatening to sue your customers is not a
> >| good long-term business strategy."
> >|
> >| [...]
> >|
> >| ...some in the popular press seem to think that merely making an
> >| announcement is the same as performing...
> > `----
> >
> > http://www.linuxinterviews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=17&Itemid=2
> >
> >
> > Related to:
> >
> > Interoperability: Is Microsoft All Talk?
> >
> > Microsoft sure has been talking lots about interoperability, but is it walk,
> > walk, walking?
> >
> > http://tinyurl.com/y4rllu
>
>
> This whole thing is quite ironic for me. The major OSS system I've been
> deploying at work is Suse based at the moment, primarily because Red Hat
> were so cold about the OSDL/Carrier Grade requirements. In an amazingly
> ironic turn of events, Red Hat appear to be grasping the Carrier Grade
> requirements at the same moment that Suse are threatening their users.
>
> Guess what? My next boxes will /not/ be Suse.
>
> --
> | Mark Kent -- mark at ellandroad dot demon dot co dot uk |
> Be sure to evaluate the bird-hand/bush ratio.
Mark Kunt is a lienux fag whos shilling for his boyfriend Roy
Schestowitz. He makes a me too reply to every one of Roys posts so that
Roy-boi collects an extra nickel by the FUD compay that pays him to
post his crap here.
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