you misunderstood

you misunderstood

Posted Nov 7, 2006 13:58 UTC (Tue) by eru (subscriber, #2753)
In reply to: you misunderstood by niner
Parent article: Red Hat downplays Novell/Microsoft deal (ArsTechnica)

If it really were only about Novell paying Microsoft for advertisement, I wouldn't have any problem with it. But Novell is really paying royalty for some unspecified Microsoft IP in Linux, and that undermines Linux in a rather fundamental way, as discussed by many here, and elsewhere.

Going back to the "who is a fanatic issue", one does not have to believe "Microsoft is the Satan" or something like that in order to want to avoid dealing with them. Obviously the company exists to make money, but I can dislike the way they do that, and prefer companies more in harmony with my values.

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