[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, Ron Clarke wrote:


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


It's the same strategy of "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish", that M$
has been using for years. They're not giving in to anything in the
OpenSource community. Remember they are masters of the 'Fear Factor'.
Rob
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