Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965569AbWKGRG4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Nov 2006 12:06:56 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964990AbWKGRG4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Nov 2006 12:06:56 -0500 Received: from rwcrmhc11.comcast.net ([204.127.192.81]:27844 "EHLO rwcrmhc11.comcast.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965574AbWKGRGy (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Nov 2006 12:06:54 -0500 Message-ID: <4550BA59.1000701@wolfmountaingroup.com> Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2006 09:54:49 -0700 From: "Jeff V. Merkey" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050921 Red Hat/1.7.12-1.4.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bernd Petrovitsch CC: Pavel Machek , Petr Baudis , Linux kernel Subject: Re: Faustian Pact between Novell and Microsoft References: <454A7BBB.10403@wolfmountaingroup.com> <20061103014907.GG11916@pasky.or.cz> <454AB477.9040107@wolfmountaingroup.com> <20061107081826.GD21655@elf.ucw.cz> <1162894662.19866.15.camel@tara.firmix.at> In-Reply-To: <1162894662.19866.15.camel@tara.firmix.at> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 810 Lines: 30 Bernd Petrovitsch wrote: >On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 09:18 +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: >[...] > > >>This is a watershed moment for Linux. It fundamentally changes the >>rules of the game. We're really excited about this deal, and we hope >>you are too. >> >> >>(from http://www.novell.com/linux/microsoft/openletter.html) only make >>it worse, but acquisition? I'd hope not even mickey$oft has enough >>cash for _that_. >> >> > >And the first point in the list is "patents" .... > > Bernd > > I can see the lights are coming on now for some folks now. 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/