On Novell and Microsoft

On Novell and Microsoft

Posted Nov 10, 2006 21:35 UTC (Fri) by oak (subscriber, #2786)
In reply to: On Novell and Microsoft by andypep
Parent article: On Novell and Microsoft

Well, another way to read this deal is that MicroSoft wouldn't want
there to be one big Linux company, but rather more smaller ones.
And it's managing this by helping the "next from the biggest" Linux
company/ies.

That's propably not very efficient strategy as because of Open Source,
it's much easier for Linux companies to collaborate to achieve similar
effect that a larger company would have.


I think MicroSoft could also see thoroughly Free Software -world more
threatening than mix of Free Software with proprietary software.
In former there is no place for proprietary software that MS
represents!

Therefore MicroSoft can try to corrupt the competition from the Free
Software movement by inducing / helping mixed distributions to include
their proprietary software; codecs etc. I.e. "train" Linux users to
accept their closed formats / proprietary software. This way they can
guarantee that the Free Software and open formats won't win the day
(completely) and they can still collect their royalties.

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