From: "Jeff V. Merkey" <jmerkey@wolfmountaingroup.com>
To: Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@firmix.at>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>, Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>,
Linux kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Faustian Pact between Novell and Microsoft
Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2006 09:54:49 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4550BA59.1000701@wolfmountaingroup.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1162894662.19866.15.camel@tara.firmix.at>
Bernd Petrovitsch wrote:
>On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 09:18 +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
>[...]
>
>
>>This is a watershed moment for Linux. It fundamentally changes the
>>rules of the game. We're really excited about this deal, and we hope
>>you are too.
>>
>>
>>(from http://www.novell.com/linux/microsoft/openletter.html) only make
>>it worse, but acquisition? I'd hope not even mickey$oft has enough
>>cash for _that_.
>>
>>
>
>And the first point in the list is "patents" ....
>
> Bernd
>
>
I can see the lights are coming on now for some folks now.
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-07 17:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-02 23:14 Faustian Pact between Novell and Microsoft Jeff V. Merkey
2006-11-02 23:41 ` Jesper Juhl
2006-11-02 23:45 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2006-11-03 1:49 ` Petr Baudis
2006-11-03 3:16 ` Jeffrey V. Merkey
2006-11-03 22:46 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2006-11-04 22:56 ` Eduard Giménez
2006-11-07 8:18 ` Pavel Machek
2006-11-07 10:17 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2006-11-07 16:54 ` Jeff V. Merkey [this message]
2006-11-07 17:47 ` Gene Heskett
2006-11-07 20:14 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2006-11-07 20:37 ` Gene Heskett
2006-11-07 21:57 ` Pavel Machek
2006-11-08 4:57 ` David Schwartz
2006-11-08 5:11 ` Avuton Olrich
2006-11-08 8:56 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2006-11-08 9:53 ` Kyle Moffett
2006-11-07 22:14 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2006-11-07 22:12 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2006-11-03 11:40 ` Andreas Jellinghaus
2006-11-03 14:39 ` Gene Heskett
2006-11-03 16:53 ` Jeffrey V. Merkey
2006-11-04 18:33 ` Gene Heskett
2006-11-08 14:10 ` Jarek Poplawski
2006-11-08 19:45 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-11-08 22:13 ` Alan Cox
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