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Betrayal

Novell's betrayal will ensure a noticable loss of community support for anything they do.

Somehow I don't think the Linux core team will look at it that way, much less businesses who readily use Windows and Linux alongside each other.

It's a "betrayal" only to those who could care less about what businesses want and would prefer a Linux universe completely divorced from what enterprises ACTUALLY use...which is Windows (increasingly).

No self-repecting member of the community would use MS tools and code for .Net/Mono. Especially since Novell has just muddied the waters of Ximian/Gnome/Mono.

That's why polls are interesting, and Dana's is a good example. YOU think that way, but the majority don't. Why? Because they just want to write software, and could care less about the trench war that occupies the minds of SOME open source programmers. Those same programmers are likely the ones who are in opposition to Torvalds dislike of DRM restrictions in GPLv3.

It's clear to anyone with a minimal knowledge of MS' past business practices that there are alterior motive here and they are all about finding a way to eliminate the competition by whatever means necesary.

Microsoft clearly has its own interests at heart, but what's clear to those not so ideologically constrained is that this is NOT something that benefits ONLY Microsoft.

Like it or not, Microsoft has most of the desktop market and half the server market. What is Linux going to do about that, continue to insist that the entire Windows universe will go away, to be replaced by Linux? Clearly, enterprises aren't doing that.

Posted by: John Carroll   Posted on: 11/06/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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