taharka wrote:
On Thu, 2006-11-09 at 11:34 -0500, Mike McCarthy, W1NR wrote:
The groklaw article is the very same day after knee jerk reaction that is
I abandoned Groklaw some years ago and it's good to see folk forming
their own opinion from diverse sources instead of getting spoonfed.
My initial reaction also, after reading the groklaw article before any
others. Now, I'm taking the wait & see route until the jury is in ;-)
Novell put up some blather here
http://www.novell.com/linux/microsoft/faq_opensource.html
But IMO it's hard to mistake the events for anything except strong FUD
against Linux. It has the hallmark of thoroughbred FUD, the threat is
powerful but nebulous, unstated, cannot be engaged with or dissipated,
can only be inferred, best of all for MSFT it is deniable by the author
(some time before any MSFT person stops talking in smug riddles when
asked if RHAT are under any patent gun, I think we will find). It
reminds me of the SCO FUD that there was tainted IP in Linux, but
somehow they ensured there was no way to ever get clean because they
could never specify what the issue actually was. And that was because
the lingering FUD was the whole point.
I always hated Mono since it is only increasing the pool of devs that
invest in languages controlled by MSFT. I hope RHAT burn the misguided
junk.
Novell lost their way after Netware and now they have lost their way
again. That helps RHAT, as does the fact that they only attract this
attention because they have been effective. And just maybe the recent
political changes in the US can make any actual (as opposed to
hinted-at) extermination of MSFT's competition less likely, given the
different prosecution of the antitrust stuff under the two main parties.
-Andy
