[LBo] Re: Microsoft to do a Linux deal with Novell / Hell Freezes Over: Microsoft, Novell Team

[James Allen]

On 11/3/06, Tim Billingsley <tim at likespecies.com> wrote:
> I am sure there are a variety of mindsets here. While this may bring
> Linux more into the limelight there are also those that think like Jim.
> At this point I am glad that my installation of Suse failed. It is just
> hard for me to believe that M$ is not going to try to suck every dollar
> they can out of this and once they get their hooks into it who knows
> what will become of it all.

If MS is in a virutal machine, a license fee still has to be paid. And
the same with Suse. It's a pay-pay situation!

A while ago I saw no a server manufacturers website, it was either
Dell or Sun, if you wanted and OS, Red Hat was more expensive than
Windows!

>
> There are a lot of things that could come from this, but what? Who will
> bend to meet who in the compatibility arena? Will more manufacturers
> release drivers or at least make the code available so the drivers can
> be developed, and on and on...
>
> Tim

Don't hold your breath.

James