[ Thanks to Jane Walker for this link.
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“Life is interesting, isn’t it? Who would have guessed at the
number of changes in our industry over the past 12 months?“My first reaction to the news of Microsoft’s support for Linux
was: ‘Wow! incredible!’ Oh, I guess that was the reaction all
round.“Then I re-read the Microsoft-Novell announcement and thought
about it some more. I wonder if the wording of the announcement is
designed to stir up those within the open source movement/community
who are branded by the ‘establishment’ as radicals. You know, that
is not the first time that has happened…!”
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