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Microsoft backs Novell's Linux platform
Posted: Fri Nov 03, 2006 12:37 pm
by Phlegm
http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/11/03/micr ... index.html
Microsoft Corp. has embraced Novell Inc.'s open-source software platform, forming a technological truce between two longtime antagonists who want to make it easier for the still-dominant Windows operating system and the increasingly popular Linux system to work together.
Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 2:56 pm
by ClakarEQ
350million at that. Would be an interesting site to see MS release a quasi-open source product
Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 4:44 pm
by leah
we carried this story in one of our pubs this week. i was like "hmmm, interesting" and then remembered that i don't understand linux at all. i wish i was better at computers!
Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 4:48 pm
by Tikker
leah wrote:we carried this story in one of our pubs this week. i was like "hmmm, interesting" and then remembered that i don't understand linux at all. i wish i was better at computers!
the whole goal of linux is to simply make things as difficult as possible for yourself, but give you that sense of superiority over people who just want stuff to work
Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 4:50 pm
by leah
hehehe sometimes i get that impression. :P
Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 5:12 pm
by Bodin
the whole goal of linux is to simply make things as difficult as possible for yourself, but give you that sense of superiority over people who just want stuff to work
Haha
<---Accounting server is SCO Unix. :\
Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 5:45 pm
by Tikker
I've got my SUN unix certification
they're kind of the kings of refusing to ever implement any kind of useful gui
command line for lyfe omg