A Windows tax on SUSE, and a SUSE tax on Windows?

A Windows tax on SUSE, and a SUSE tax on Windows?

Posted Nov 7, 2006 19:53 UTC (Tue) by shadesfox (subscriber, #28651)
Parent article: On Novell and Microsoft

The article states that "Microsoft has succeeded in collecting a tax on
every SUSE Linux distribution supported by Novel"

But it seems SUSE has collected a tax on Windows too. An interesting
reversal of fate, since I can get Ubuntu Linux (plus any other Linux
based system really) and not pay the MS tax, but now all Windows users
must pay the Linux tax, since there is only one Windows.

I can see this as a sort of covering your bases move for Microsoft too.
If Linux does take over the world, then Microsoft will have a cash stream
through SUSE to stay alive on.

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