On Sun, 2006-11-12 at 17:44 +0800, Dean Michael Berris wrote: > Might be OT but, I personally will buy Microsoft Linux for the desktop > if that ever happens. :P > > Imagine the Win32 runtime embedded in the Linux kernel
Ahem, let me just say, aaaaararrrrggggggghhh noooooooooooooooooooo! > (making it a > tainted kernel which FWIW I don't mind at all) and all the Windows > applications working out of the box. Consider not having to need X > anymore because the Windows GUI already comes shipped with the > installer. Sweet. I'm still having trouble figuring out if you're joking or not, damn email and its lack of contextual body language. > > At any rate, maybe MS is just doing what is good for business. They > haven't born out any concrete technical plans yet, but their stock has > risen quite sharply because of this deal. Contrast that to the share > price fall when they hit delays on both Office 2007 and Vista. Shares went up because MS now has a claim (percieved) on Intellectual Property contained within every package that SUSE distributes. Remember they have not detailed which packages would be covered by the IP agreement. Also note that shares for Novell actually dropped a little on news of the deal. -- James Purser K-sit.com http://k-sit.com SIP: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mob: 0406 576 553
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