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Re: Novell and the Microsoft Deal

  • Subject: Re: Novell and the Microsoft Deal
  • From: Mark Kent <mark.kent@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2006 16:36:47 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • References: <1164485660.038157.60260@h54g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> <mg3o34-ngh.ln1@ellandroad.demon.co.uk> <1489656.FDjNHx2rDO@schestowitz.com>
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Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> __/ [ Mark Kent ] on Sunday 26 November 2006 09:31 \__
> 
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>> Rex Ballard <rex.ballard@xxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>> Here's Novell's side of the story
>>> 
>>> Open Letter to the Community from Novell
>>> http://www.novell.com/linux/microsoft/community_open_letter.html
>>><quote>
>>> On November 2, Novell and Microsoft announced a significant, multi-part
>>> agreement to work together to improve the interoperability between
>>> Linux and Windows and for Microsoft to redistribute more than 350,000
>>> subscriptions for SUSE Linux Enterprise to the Windows customer base
>>> over a five-year period.
>> 
>> hahaha!  Do the Novell board really believe that this will happen?  No,
>> of course they don't.  What they've done is got $260mio into the coffers
>> of Novell inc., which will ensure that the board members get to trouser
>> a really good bonus this year.  I suggest that everyone looks out for
>> the bonuses of Novell board members this year, and perhaps next year,
>> indeed, over this full five-year period, as the real story will emerge
>> at that point.
> 
> 
> Nail. Head.
> 
> Novell Hikes Execs' Pay
> 
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| Open source software maker Novell said last Friday its board approved
>| the increase of its president and chief executive's base salary to
>| US$825,000 per year.
> `----
> 
> http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/53226.html
> 

Being right is great, but I don't usually get to be right quite so
quickly :-)


Always follow the money.

Anyway, all those people out there writing code which Novell sell on -
your code has been used to provide the Novell Board with pay rises, and
they're agreeing that *you* are in the firing line for a Microsoft legal
attack!

-- 
| Mark Kent   --   mark at ellandroad dot demon dot co dot uk  |
You will lose an important disk file.

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