Re: OT: The rubber sword of Damocles

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On Friday 03 November 2006 05:18, Andy Green wrote:
>Michael Wiktowy wrote:
>> Just finished watching the Novell/MS press conference and it looks
>> like MS is trying to spread the software patent bogeyman again (now
>> that their ploy with SCO isn't quite panning out as they imagined) but
>> it seems to me due to the complex entanglement of upstream
>
>Complex entanglement of people all based in Utah, too.
>
There must be something in the water in Utah.

>> contributers, they would have a hard time pursuing any IP rights
>> against anyone in the Open Source community now ... including Red Hat.
>>
>> Here's to hoping that Novell is acting in the greater good on the Open
>> Source community rather than self interests.
>
>Bah everyone is running around trying to screw RHAT at the moment, we
>are expected to believe that the recent kicks to the belly are not
>coming from the same foot?
>
>http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=NOVL&t=3m&l=on&z=m&q=l&c=RHAT,ORA
>
>It's a compliment that you have been effective when attackers start
>coming out of the woodwork.  I hope RHAT muse on what they were doing
>that prompted such a schoolyard gang to form and crank the volume up on
>it to 11.
>
Yeah, well that page doesn't show RHAT in such rosy terms.  Its a neat page 
though except for the builtin delays, it almost makes you think you are 
watching in real time.  I'll bookmark it just for grins.

>-Andy

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