[Leaplist] microsoft / novell

[Fred Moore]

On Sunday 05 November 2006 5:38 pm, Jim Hartley wrote:
> It is certainly your right to refuse to use this product (or any other).
> And lord knows I hate Micro$haft as much as anyone ... although I am now
> a strong Linux advocate, I am STILL p*ssed at them for the way they
> sabotaged OS/2. Had I been the judge at the anti-trust trial, they would
> have been broken into about SIX pieces, with a sixth (or more) of the
> resources given to a "Windows 98" company, and far less to the "Windows
> NT/2K/XP" company  ... how's that for sabotage, hmmm?
>
> BUT ... I think you are starting to sound a little Stallman-ish on this.

No reason to insult people.. While I totally support a very few of his views.  
I don't think I support any of his political views.  

My problem with Novell is them restarting the SCO crap again.  Here we go.  
Linux is bad you need to be indemnified or you may get sued by big microslop 
as linux most likely has code copyrighted by Microsoft.  Novell has stated 
they will NOW endemnify their customers... Novell has even said that it was 
sone of the reasons they signe an agreement.  Even Red Hat recognizes what is 
going on.  They have now changed their web site to include the word 
indemnification.    All this when the SCO crap could be coming to an end.. 
here we go again..   I will again state I think Microsoft was behind SCO vs 
IBM..   If I owned a company running SUSE servers or desktops I don't care 
how much it cost me in manpower it would be out so fast they would not have 
noticed till afterwords..  Fred




>
> Jim Hartley
>
> Fred Moore wrote:
> > After reading much on this subject..
> > http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/exec/steve/2006/11-02NovellInterop.msp
> >x
> >
> > I have come to the following conclusion.   Novell is selling community
> > code down the tubes in their quest for bigger bucks.   Many have heard me
> > talk about suse 10 and 10.1 as a distro that works..   In fact I
> > purchased 10 in box format.   Tomorrow I will be sending addressed to
> > Ronald W. Hovsepian the box I purchased. along with the origional disks,
> > and all copies I have made..  With a note telling them to keep his
> > software.  It is now only installed on one machine, my wifes... by the
> > end of tomorrow that will be removed..  I would do it sooner but have a
> > pressing work project.
> >
> > I have come to the conclusion it is just not proper to support this
> > company.. From the many blogs I have read last night and today I don't
> > think I am the only person who feels this way..  Fred
>
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Fred Moore - WD8KNI