Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752945AbWKCCHG (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Nov 2006 21:07:06 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752937AbWKCCHG (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Nov 2006 21:07:06 -0500 Received: from rwcrmhc11.comcast.net ([216.148.227.151]:64478 "EHLO rwcrmhc11.comcast.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752463AbWKCCHE (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Nov 2006 21:07:04 -0500 Message-ID: <454AB477.9040107@wolfmountaingroup.com> Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2006 20:16:07 -0700 From: "Jeffrey V. Merkey" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050513 Fedora/1.7.8-2 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Petr Baudis CC: Linux kernel Subject: Re: Faustian Pact between Novell and Microsoft References: <454A7BBB.10403@wolfmountaingroup.com> <20061103014907.GG11916@pasky.or.cz> In-Reply-To: <20061103014907.GG11916@pasky.or.cz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1395 Lines: 44 Petr Baudis wrote: >>It's official. Microsoft and Novell will now fork Linux. >> >> > >(It's not clear what do you mean by "fork Linux". You mean fork the >kernel? Basically all the normal distributions are "forking the kernel" >and it seems to work fine. If not the kernel, it's even less clear.) > >But I guess I just take you too seriously. ;-) > > > No problem. I was shocked to see it happen, but I left Novell 10 years ago trying to make the same thing happen between the two, so today for me the future took root in the present. Seriously, Novell has a limited lifespan unless acquired, and an M$ acquisition would be a good thing for the company. Given the resources both companies have, I would expect the see them take Linux in another direction. Linux is just out there floating with no good anchorage for long term survival -- a lot like Novell. 1 + 1 = 0 in this case, but with M$ assimilating it, 1 + 1 + 1 = 5 is possible. At any rate, the Linux folks working for M$ is not an outcome I would have expected, but I was happy to hear it. Let's see what M$ comes up with as a Linux knockoff and see who uses it. Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/