Novel in bed with M$

[JT Moree]

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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.

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?"

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.

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)

Just speculating . . .

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JT Morée
PC Xperience, Inc.
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