[arachne] Re: [OT] Microsoft and Novell Announce Broad Collaboration on Windows and Linux Interoperability and Support

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On Sat, 21 Jun 2008 07:24:30 +1000, Ron Clarke wrote:

> 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 ?

Right on Ron! 

M$ does nothing with good intentions, and Ballmer makes BG look ethical.


Regards,


Ray Andrews
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