ZDNet: Novell-Microsoft: How Many Times Can You Sell Your Soul?

"I would not be comfortable turning Microsoft salespeople loose on my customers. They are armed to the teeth with discounts and incentives to beat any competitor. The announcement that Novell and Microsoft will work together to improve interoperability between Windows and Novell's SuSE Linux, as well as cross-promote and support one another's products strikes me as eerily like one of those movies with Christopher Lee as Dracula.

"Every time you see an old Dracula film, the same fool is making a deal with Drac to achieve eternal life, a life you know, as the viewer, is going to be awful and short..."

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