our newest Ally ...Microsoft?

11-02-2006	#1 (permalink)
carlosponti Linux Enthusiast Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Oklahoma Posts: 559	our newest Ally ...Microsoft? http://online.wsj.com/public/article...html?mod=blogs __________________ Blog Registered Linux user 396557

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techieMoe Super Moderantor Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Texas Posts: 9,269	Hmm. Intriguing. It's a little early for April Fool's, so I'm curious where this one will go. Good find. __________________ Registered Linux user #270181 TechieMoe's Tech Rants

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carlosponti Linux Enthusiast Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Oklahoma Posts: 559	quite a turn for them after all the rhetoric about IP rights and litigation that open source invites. __________________ Blog Registered Linux user 396557

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techieMoe Super Moderantor Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Texas Posts: 9,269	I'm still awaiting confirmation from another news site. Things like this sometimes have a tendency to be retracted, saying "We are sorry but the representative from Microsoft was misquoted. What we meant to say was....<insert some non-news statement here>" __________________ Registered Linux user #270181 TechieMoe's Tech Rants

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carlosponti Linux Enthusiast Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Oklahoma Posts: 559	so far there is not a conference yet however found another article from reuters http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061102/...soft_novell_dc __________________ Blog Registered Linux user 396557

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bigtomrodney /etc/init.d/moderator Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Sunny South-East of Ireland Posts: 6,038	Well I can't say I saw that one coming. Awaiting confirmation. __________________ Registered Linux user #378740 New members read here / Forum Rules #linuxforums on irc.freenode.net

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Originally Posted by bigtomrodney

Well I can't say I saw that one coming. Awaiting confirmation.

Likewise. Out of left field for me.

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smolloy Linux Guru Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: CA, but from N.Ireland Posts: 2,408	Looks like the conference is on in San Francisco at 14:00 Pacific time (22:00 GMT). This could be interesting... __________________ Registered Linux user #388328 \|\| Registered LFS user #15880 AMD 64 X2 4600+ :: 2X1GB DDR2 800 :: GeForce 9400 GT 512MB :: ASUS M2N32 Deluxe :: 4X250GB SATAII Need instant help? Try us on IRC -- #linuxforums on freenode

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easuter Linux Newbie Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Portugal Posts: 194	Personaly I take anything that MS says (if they realy did mean to say this) with a pinch (or bag) of salt... __________________ All Empires rise and fall. The Microsoft Empire has already risen, only one way to go now...

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carlosponti Linux Enthusiast Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Oklahoma Posts: 559	http://www.novell.com/linux/microsoft/webcast.html i will say this is strictly in the business environments. i doubt you will see that kind of cooperation in the desktop market. __________________ Blog Registered Linux user 396557