Novel and Microsoft

[Jerry Davis]

Ok, this sounds a LOT like the parable of the camel and tent.
For those who do not know it:

On a very cold night in the desert,
The camel put his nose in the tent, 
so that he could be warm.
The owner of the camel let him do that,
Because it was only his nose.
A little later, the camel put his whole head in to get warm.
It was only his head, so the owner let him do that.
One thing led to another, and soon ...
The camel was in the tent,
and the owner was outside freezing!

I'll let you guess who the camel is -- M$ or the Linux Community.

Jerry

On Wednesday 22 November 2006 15:31, Dazed_75 wrote:
> I'm sure most have read the open letter from Novell, but if not you should:
>     http://www.novell.com/linux/microsoft/community_open_letter.html
>
> the corresponding M$ letter is nothing but doubletalk so find and read it
> if you must, but it wasn't worth the effort for me to seek it out again to
> put a link here.
>
> On 11/22/06, Alan Dayley <alandd at consultpros.com> wrote:
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> > An interesting continuation of this story just came across NewsForge
> > today.  There will be a special OpenSUSE IRC meeting on Monday, November
> > 27th, 10:00AM (if I read the time zones right) to discuss the
> > Novell/Microsoft deal.
> >
> > http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/Special_Meeting_2006-11-23
> >
> > I don't know if I will connect and I probably will not be able to pay
> > full attention if I do.  But the same URL above will have a link to the
> > transcript after the meeting.  I'll certainly be reading that in any
> > case.
> >
> > Alan
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