On Fri, 2006-11-03 at 18:19 -0700, JT Moree wrote:
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> My thoughts were that MS will do what they always do. partner with
> Novell to steal as many trade secrets and knowledge as possible then
> tell Novell to take a hike. There should be an official Microsoft Linux
> within 3 years.
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> This does two main things for Microsoft. They look like they are
> playing nice with Linux because 'Hey we support Linux'. And they start
> grabbing Linux Marketshare to add to Windows Marketshare which will
> increase MS marketshare overall. no MS Linux will not be free or
> redistributable. "If suse and Linspire can do it why can't we?"
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> Of course they will embrace and extend samba and other unix services so
> that they don't work with the upstream versions. They might release the
> source code but not quickly. They have enough lawyers to keep a lawsuit
> going long enough to wear out anyone who might sue and then they'll
> settle out of court for $130 mill.
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> Or they may not release source code at all. It's obvious the company
> has no fear of customers, competitors, or governments on multiple
> continents. They can drag out lawsuits for so long that the source code
> issue becomes moot because by the time the suit might get close to being
> finished a whole new industry paradigm may have taken over.
>
> Even if a suit is won against them, they'll have plenty of time to
> 'remove' the offending software. Then they can hack and compile samba
> binaries and call it Microsoft networking for Linux. without source
> code how do we know it's really a hacked samba. They've done it before.
> (not with samba)
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samba is GPL
enough said
Craig
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