Turbolinux has followed Novell, Linspire, and Xandros in signing a patent and technology agreement with Microsoft. "In a deal that could lead to the creation of a unique cross-platform authentication system for heterogenous networks, Tokyo-based Linux distributor Turbolinux announced this morning, Japan time, it has reached an agreement with Microsoft for a cross-licensing of the two companies' patent portfolios."
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Member since:2005-07-11
Companies do not hold personal grudges.
But the people who run the companies can and sometimes do.
What companies do is get the best deal for themselves.
Under ideal circumstances only. As a for instance, what has SCO as a company gained from the ongoing multi-year long law suite with IBM over Unix/Linux copyright violations? Answer, jack squat. Darl certainly was acting in someones interests, but they were not that of SCO.
I understand the business world, and I don't like most of what I see.
This was funny. A couple years back, some Sun programmers wanted to make a product that they were working on, open source and free. I guess they were wide eye utopians. Their manager had to bring them back to reality and told them, and who is going to pay you them? They all decided to shelved their bright idea. Most of you are like those programmers, sheeps without common sense!
Huh?
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/
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Member since:2005-07-24
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First, two comments:
1. No community is of a piece. Glancing over this and your previous posts, I can't help but notice that you have a very "you people" attitude. Most any community is heterogeneous. It might behoove you to consider that.
2. If your goal is to persuade "us people" that you are right, you need to work on your technique. Openly insulting your target for persuasion is exceedingly ill-advised. It almost guarantees that you will not be listened to.
That said, I might actually agree with you to an extent. But I can't help but want to distance myself from you a bit.
Please take this post in the constructive spirit in which it is intended.
Oh, and you might want to provide more detail and/or evidence regarding your Sun example. Without concrete details you might as well have started it out with "Once upon a time...".
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I read the comments here as amusement. You can tell that most of you have never own a business, or understand the business world.
Like someone said in another subject. Companies do not hold personal grudges, like all the fans of whatever OS you favor do. What companies do is get the best deal for themselves. If A sell me a product cheaper than B, but B is my friend, I still buy from A. Boys, that's business.
This was funny. A couple years back, some Sun programmers wanted to make a product that they were working on, open source and free. I guess they were wide eye utopians. Their manager had to bring them back to reality and told them, and who is going to pay you them? They all decided to shelved their bright idea. Most of you are like those programmers, sheeps without common sense!