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Why Microsoft won't assault Linux (ZDNet)
Why Microsoft won't assault Linux (ZDNet)
Posted Nov 8, 2006 20:34 UTC (Wed) by louie (subscriber, #3285)Parent article: Why Microsoft won't assault Linux (ZDNet)
The obvious question, then, is if the detente is with Linux, why is the agreement with Novell and not OSDL or FSF?
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Why Microsoft won't assault Linux (ZDNet)
Posted Nov 8, 2006 21:41 UTC (Wed) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link]
not OSDL or FSF?
That's the answer. There are OSDL, FSF, X.Org Foundation, etc, etc. It's easier to "achieve a detente" when you are talking with single corporate entity... and it's also easier to attack single corporate entity when (not if!) Microsoft will decide that it does not need any "detente" anymore and has good chance of killing free software. Perhaps when software patents will become reality in EU and few other important countries ?
The word "detente" is telling enough: we do know what followed after it, right ?
Why Microsoft won't assault Linux (ZDNet)
Posted Nov 8, 2006 22:12 UTC (Wed) by flewellyn (subscriber, #5047) [Link]
Glasnost, Perestroika, and the collapse of the Warsaw Pact?
Assume that Microsoft is the Soviet-style power in this equation (which fits better, the FOSS world being a lot more chaotically democratic and capitalist, oddly enough), and I don't see a problem.
Why Microsoft won't assault Linux (ZDNet)
Posted Nov 9, 2006 6:00 UTC (Thu) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link]
Glasnost, Perestroika, and the collapse of the Warsaw Pact?
Nope. It was later. Much later. After detente world got war in Afgan, problems in Iran, etc.
Assume that Microsoft is the Soviet-style power in this equation
History rarely repeat itself. It rhymes. So we can not be too sure who'll win the next phase (starting in 2012?), but we do know it's not the end of story...