Answer 5 questions on Micro-vell, receive a 2GB USB drive
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| A contender for one of the most controversial things Microsoft has done, the
| software giant's pact with Novell caused many to fall of their seat when it
| was announced in 2006. Many were appalled or disgusted with the deal, but
| there was nothing that could be done to stop it.
|
| [...]
|
| A handful of companies is hardly enough to make the alliance worth it. Thus,
| the two want more information from businesses on what they need from a
| Windows and Linux partnership.
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http://arstechnica.com/journals/microsoft.ars/2008/03/03/answer-5-questions-on-micro-vell-receive-a-2gb-usb-drive
So you could get swallowed by Ballmer in exchange for a worthless piece of
metal? That's a deal as 'good' as that Novell/Microsoft deal.
Related:
Novell congratulates itself for snogging Microsoft
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| Novell wants you to know that selling its soul to Steve Ballmer was a really
| good idea.
|
| On the last day of 2007, two separate Novell execs tossed up blog posts
| congratulating themselves for agreeing to that "interoperability partnership"
| with Microsoft, a year-old deal intent on forcing an unholy relationship
| between Linux and Windows.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/03/linux_pats_self_on_back/
Microsoft Making Millions Off Novell Linux
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| Evidence is emerging that Microsoft is making money, lots of it, from
| selling 'certificates' for Novell's SUSE Linux. Microsoft gained the right to
| distribute the certificates a little more than a year ago under a marketing
| and technical alliance with Novell.
|
| [...]
|
| So, while Linux -- free software that competes with Windows -- may still be
| a "cancer" for Microsoft, the company has found a way to profit from it.
| That's a good trick . . . perhaps Microsoft should next enter the
| pharmaceutical market?
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http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/01/microsoft_makin.html
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| [Allison: ] "Yes, that's true, actually. I mean I have had people come
| up to me and essentially off the record admit that they had been
| threatened by Microsoft and had got patent cross license and had
| essentially taken out a license for Microsoft patents on the free
| software that they were using [...] But they're not telling anyone
| about it. They're completely doing it off the record."
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http://linux.slashdot.org/linux/07/02/11/1443211.shtml
Novell's .Net moment
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| Novell has struggled to compete in the open-source world. Combining with
| Microsoft hasn't helped. So why not, as Dave suggests, link up with
| Microsoft's .Net code to build an ecosystem around it that would complement
| Microsoft's own efforts to do so?
|
| [...]
|
| Let's face it: there are still hordes of developers out there who love
| Microsoft and would probably prefer to create open-source projects
| around .Net instead of Java or the LAMP stack. Novell could orchestrate this
| since Microsoft appears to have a PR problem with doing so.
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http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9867460-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad
All sides of the debate?
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| How many sides are there in the OOXML debate? What if all sides are Microsoft
| and Microsoft business partners?
|
| [...]
|
| Dough Mahugh (Microsoft) :
|
| Next week's XML 2007 conference in Boston features speakers from all
| sides of the document format debate, including a document interop session
| with Miguel de Icaza (Novell) and Vijay Rajagopalan (Microsoft) that I
| expect will offer a lively discussion around Open XML, ODF, and XML-based
| interoperability in general.
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http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-29108/all-sides-of-the-debate
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