Microsoft/Novell Partnership

[Rick Tomaschuk]

Likely why MS does'nt want anyone to see code. Their products resemble a
rehash of existing freely available code.
RickT

On Fri, 2006-11-03 at 01:53 -0500, Scott Elcomb wrote:
> On 11/2/06, John McGregor <mr.mcgregor-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > To be honest, I was sort of expecting a play along these lines. With IBM
> > very likely to prevail in its request for summary judgment, and Novell
> > likely to win in the copyright dispute, the licenses that Microsoft
> > bought from SCO are now virtually worthless. In the event that any
> > linux, unix, and / or SCO code made its way into Vista, Microsoft is
> > going to be in need of a cheap out. Dumping a few $million (by a company
> > with very deep pockets) into a venture that will die silently in a
> > couple of years would seem to be a logical method of achieving such an aim.
> 
> Lol, I should read my mail in choronological order.  Heh.
> 
> What you've described also sounds like a well executed diversion.
> 
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