Microsoft + Novell = Monopoly 2.0? | Linux Today

Microsoft + Novell = Monopoly 2.0?

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Michael Tiemann
Aug 21, 2008

[ Thanks to Michael
Tiemann
for this link. ]

“Microsoft’s silence on the topic of what they can do
for Open Source has now been shattered by the news that they will
follow none of the suggestions by any of the leaders in the open
source community. Rather, they will spend another $100M on software
they have no intention of ever actually using. Matt Asay dismisses
this a mere stupidity by Microsoft, which is a shockingly naive
conclusion.”

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Michael Tiemann

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