Microsoft/Novell

[Simon]

Haha, nice fantasy (I find it to be rather unpleasant nonetheless ),
but Steve Ballmer seems to have made it pretty clear that the deal was
just an excuse to spread legal FUD about usage of Linux, if you ask
me..

On 11/7/06, ted leslie <tleslie-RBVUpeUoHUc at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> I agree . no doomsday, in fact i think MS believes in trend
> analysis/extrapolation, and it sees the end is destine so it
> A) hopes Vista and MS-Cluster, etc saves them, and changes the trend,
> B) is taking steps (you ready for this, you heard it here first :)  )
>         to being a full linux disto, contributer, may be hijacker,
>         in 6 years, as they believe its better to sell Linux (support for, and
> addons) to a huge customer base that is already pablum feed by them,
> then to die with Vista, and whatever is next. Much easier to stay rich
> selling Linux for 150$ (with some windows media shit), and join sell to
> MS-office , etc then to sell 199$ MS O/S to far far less people.
> MS is just ramping up to be the largest Linux retailer there is,
> and when I get a free minute, I'll have to ask myself what I and the
> community will think about this when it happens, on one hand, Linux won,
> on the other hand MS still has a relatively high market cap, and proves
> yet again, crime does pay. I can see the tag line now:
>
> "Microsoft Linux 2012 - setting a new standard for performance and
> reliability"
>
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