****Re: Novel and Microsoft

[Gerald Thurman]

11/23/2006 Slashdot had a hyperlink to IBM's view of the Novell-Microsoft
deal. IBM thinks it is a good thing.   They are happy the Linux market place
appears to have consolidated down to two solid corporate-supported
distributions:  Red Hat and Novell.  IBM's VP of Worldwide Linux and Open
Source might be right when he said "It's Linux's time."

http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS4468266798.html

If it's Linux's time, then that is more confirmation that Unix lives!
(Despite GNU not being Unix.) It has to be great fun for Thompson, Ritchie,
McIlroy, and their team to see something they created 36+ years being used
in the 21st century. According to Ken Thompson, one of the biggest errors he
made while creating Unix  was to drop the 'e' when he named the creat()
function.

[OT] I give "thanks" to paved roads.

On 11/23/06, Jerry Davis <jdawgaz at cox.net> wrote:
>
> On Thursday 23 November 2006 22:43, Craig White wrote:
> > As long as we're nitpicking on this list tonight - and I'm not doing
> > this to be mean spirited...I often have trouble with sarcasm when it's
> > not entirely clear.
> >
> > It's clear that Microsoft not only didn't create the concept of the
> > 'Enterprise' as it applies to computer networking and in fact, were
> > latecomers to the dance but they are at the dance now and their
> > marketing efforts and overall language have been consistent enough to
> > give the impression that they created the concept in the first place -
> > but that is one of the benefits of being a successful purveyor of
> > operating systems.
>
> this reminds me of several things.
> 1) the book "The Anthem" by Ayn Rand
> 2) Herr Goebbels, head of the propaganda machine in the Third Reich
> 3) Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
>
> and on and on...
>
> >
> > I think that most people on this list understand this but the sarcasm
> > expressed below tends to cloud your point - at least in my eyes.
> >
> > Craig
> >
> > On Thu, 2006-11-23 at 13:52 -0700, Dan Lund wrote:
> > > But but but... It means that Linux is finally a viable enterprise
> > > solution now that Microsoft has given Novell it's blessing!
> > > (sorry, had to make a "enterprise solution" joke, considering
> > > everytime Microsoft is mentioned at work the words "enterprise
> > > solution" or "legacy replacement" comes up too)
> > >
> > > --Dan
> > >
> > > On 11/23/06, Darrin Chandler <dwchandler at stilyagin.com > wrote:
> > > > What's good for FOSS is when a company opens up docs, or when a
> company
> > > > makes patent licenses freely avaiable to anyone. Agreements,
> > > > partnerships, and contracts between select entities do NOT help
> FOSS.
> > > > Developers writing drivers under NDA does NOT help FOSS. No amount
> of
> > > > spin changes that.
> >
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