"Often cast as the peacemaker in free software disputes, Bruce Perens is on the warpath. When we caught up with him, he wasn't in a mood to be charitable to Novell. On Friday the Utah company, which markets the SuSE Linux distribution, revealed that it was entering into a partnership with Microsoft. Redmond would pay Novell an undisclosed sum in return for Novell recognizing Microsoft's intellectual property claims. Novell received a 'Covenant' promising that it wouldn't be sued by Microsoft."It's a case of 'Damn the people who write the software'", he told us. "Novell is in a desperate position - it has a smaller share of the market than Debian,"" he told The Register. Update: Novell responds to community's questions: here, here and here. Update 2: Havoc Pennington's take.
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Trolling is something I consider as spam. I therefore have marked most of the comments where he does this as such.
Thats an out and out lie. You mod me down continuously just because it annoys you to have somewhere express any view even remotely pro-Microsoft.
And thats one of many reasons I refer to the "cult". You cult members hate to have your world view challenged, but you enjoy nothing more than to spew venom and hate towards Microsoft despite the fact that Linux users are a tiny minority (less than 1%).
Edited 2006-11-08 01:14
Member since:2006-03-23
NotParker:
perhaps we do hate microsoft, because they are the company in the world history, that has, and continue to develop the most unstable and insecure software.
and perhaps, because they are a company that actively spends millions of dollars every year trying to do everything they can to annoy us?
why do you think we hate microsoft? do you think its like: "hey! microsoft is a fair competitor, which simply has the largest market share, lets spite them for having a technically sound and very good product!!!!!!", perhaps you should think again.
Member since:2006-04-21
Thats an out and out lie. You mod me down continuously just because it annoys you to have somewhere express any view even remotely pro-Microsoft.
No, it annoys me that someone can be so vitriolic; you accuse me of same, but compared to you, oh boy, am I a rank amateur.
And thats one of many reasons I refer to the "cult". You cult members hate to have your world view challenged, but you enjoy nothing more than to spew venom and hate towards Microsoft despite the fact that Linux users are a tiny minority (less than 1%).
Right, so because there are over a billion Chinese we should all move to Shanghai. Or because there are vastly more Muslims than Christians or Jews we should all try to make at least one pilgrimage to Mecca.
Member since:2005-07-13
...but you enjoy nothing more than to spew venom and hate towards Microsoft despite the fact that Linux users are a tiny minority (less than 1%).
Maybe I'm the only one that sees the irony of ridiculing the insignificance of linux users in a thread discussing Microsoft's validation of linux in their enterprise strategy.
Really, you're not much better than those you mock when it comes to spewing irrational venom.
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2006-04-21
Guess someone characterized you as you're making personal/offensive on Microsoft and egotripped to the place where he is Microsoft.
I don't quite uhnderstand that statement. If you're alleging that I claimed he was an MS proxy, I clearly did no such thing.
Damn, I hate those who mod down by preference instead by rules.
Continually banging on about the same tired old things ad infinitum and modding down anyone who disagrees with you wherever possible is what I consider trolling to be. I think if you asked the site admins whether I continually mod down pro-MS stuff just because it is pro-MS, they would say that I don't. NotParker, otoh, does this to pro-Linux responses. Trolling is something I consider as spam. I therefore have marked most of the comments where he does this as such. There are certain comments which he makes which I do not consider trolling, ergo I have not modded them down.
It a real shame people can't understand what Voltaire meant when he said “I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend, to the death, your right to say it."
I also have the right to tell someone to stfu already if they go on, and on, and on, and on, and on....