Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club! Hi Folks, On Fri, 20 Jun 2008 12:21:32 -0400 "Samuel W. Heywood" <sheywood@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Very good news - it seems that Micro$oft has at last come around to > realizing that they must suck up to the open source community, or > else go out of business: > http://www.novell.com/news/press/microsoft_and_novell_announce_broad_collaboration_on_windows_and_linux_interoperability_and_support That is from 2006, and has been greeted with a great deal of suspicion and scepticism by the FOSS community. From what I can gather, it is considered more of a threat to open source than any kind of support. Open source people don't seem to trust Microsoft's intentions at all, and the feeling seems to be that it is a way to infiltrate the open source community, bluff the Linux community (with some success already) into signing various agreements with M$ which seem to imply there is something in M$'s claims of patent infringement, and to look after M$'s interests generally. Remember, the Billy Goat is out of it now, and Steve Ballmer is in control of Microsoft ! Does anybody on this list trust Steve Ballmer ? Regards, Ron -- Ron Clarke AUSREG Consultancy http://www.ausreg.com Tadpole Tunes http://www.tadpoletunes.com This mail sent to you from sylpheed running on penguin-power Arachne at FreeLists -- Arachne, The Premier GPL Web Browser/Suite for DOS --