OT: The rubber sword of Damocles

[Marc]

I'm not holding my breath that MS, Novell, or any other major company is
doing anything at any time for overall benevolence to the world.  I have
learned to be very wary of anything I see or hear.  This whole story just
makes me think that some very underhanded deals have been made between the 2
companies.  MS is also probably stabbing Novell in the back, which is to be
expected since they already did that by stealing NDS and making it AD, as
well as other companies products as well (I digress).

Probably the strategy is

1 convince them that interoperability is the 'wave of the future'

2 convince them that MS and Novell are the best 2 combinations around

3  make sure they 'enmesh' all of the products, directory services,
filesystems, browsers, systems management apps, databases, etc.

4.  NOW MS can write code that makes Linux look bad- like make the Active
Directory not work on Linux without a license upgrade (try presenting that
scenario to management).

5.  Continue to lure the 'weak link' - that is, middle management - people
who often know little about  the technology that is running in the
enterprise.  People who often make decisions based on how well it makes them
look.  People who, themselves, do not often have to handle or interface with
technology.  ---continue to lure them into a sense of 'security'.  Also a
big emotional player is the fear of 'auditing' by MS themselves.  Some
people, including a COO I know, are really paranoid about this.

The strategy is similar to pimps and prostitutes.  No one voluntarily
decides to throw their life away.  Instead the pimps (MS)  offer them free
drugs, get them hooked, and that guarantees they will work for them
ongoingly and indefinitely ( go to bat for them, renew licenses, buy huge
enterprise licenses, etc).

Boy there are some strange bedfellows these days...


Marc





On 11/2/06, Michael Wiktowy <michael.wiktowy at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Just finished watching the Novell/MS press conference and it looks
> like MS is trying to spread the software patent bogeyman again (now
> that their ploy with SCO isn't quite panning out as they imagined) but
> it seems to me due to the complex entanglement of upstream
> contributers, they would have a hard time pursuing any IP rights
> against anyone in the Open Source community now ... including Red Hat.
>
> Here's to hoping that Novell is acting in the greater good on the Open
> Source community rather than self interests.
>
> /Mike
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