On Tue, 05 Jun 2007 at 09:54:21AM +0000, Alan Pope wrote:
> First Novell, now Xandros [0] Microsoft are """""protecting""""" Linux
> users all over the place.
>
> Ok, who's next?
>
> Place your bets!
>
> I vote Mandriva.
"The enemy of my enemy is my friend."
MS will team up with any small Linux company and any small linux company
will team up with MS because they all have a mutual enemy in Red Hat. Some
distro companies wont, but any that need the cash will take the money
and run if they can.
"Companies don't have allies, only interests."
MS and Sun teamed up with SCO against IBM and Linux. While IBM and
Sun teamed up against MS on office formats. You can't trust anyone,
even if you have a joint venture, and with big companies different
divisions will openly act against each other...
I expect more Linux distros to "sleep with the enemy" and as is often said
after you shake hands with Microsoft count your fingers....
--
Adam Trickett
Overton, HANTS, UK
Good advice is always certain to be ignored,
but that's no reason not to give it
-- Agatha Christie
