The same week that Microsoft issued a press release providing further details about some of the technological advances that will result from the November 2006 technology agreement between Novell and Microsoft, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told Wall Street what he really thinks the deal means to Microsoft. During a forecast update meeting for financial analysts and shareholders on February 15, Ballmer reiterated that, to him, the deal is more about Microsoft exerting intellectual property pressure on Novell than anything else.
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I do not know how Novell could have trusted him, however, I don't think Ballmer would have been allowed anywhere near that meeting.
Monkey-boy... and I mean Ballmer, not Bush, is retarded. He keeps speaking before thinking. Do a Google search for Ballmer quotes....
Unless you are a Ballmer fan, do not do a Google search, "MSN it" hahaha
If Ballmer and Microsoft keep up this patent and IP crap, it will be both Microsoft and the US economy that suffer.... wait.. I think this is Ballmer on his own, I dont think there is official Microsoft backing to this...
Decent countries like us in the EU who do not recognise software IP and software patents will carry on as usual, advancing and leaving Ballmer to fight it out in US courts who only have juristiction over US companies.
Which raises a point.
Nothing is stopping Novell moving to a EU country and continuing trading from there, Suse was a German company after all. This would make all ballmers complaints moot.
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RE[2]: poor novell poor linux community
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I really wish it wasn't about that.
Of course it is Ballmer and listening to him is almost as bad as listening to Bush. I mean I can't stand either of them.
Edited 2007-02-18 21:12