Dell joins Novell deal ...

[Bill]

In all fairness and like most seeping politics, this actually *is* a 
longer-term technical issue that we probably will need to deal with in our 
budgets or our toolkits - perhaps in the near future. Frankly, I'm very 
worried about our Red Hat installations now.

While I know that practically, this is not a rant-forum, I'm seriously 
wondering what Microsoft has anything to do with Linux announcements 
mentioning words like "indemnification" and "assurance" and other hints 
reportedly made by parties to the deal.  Afterall, at least one of these 
companies quietly financed the SCO debacle that attempted to squeeze dollars 
out of my technical budget while working to discredit the work or our 
developers as intellectual theft.

To be fair, perhaps Dell should have a forum where these questions can be 
addressed in a format other than the pages of Fortune Magazine, Slash Dot, or 
this technical forum.


Thanks.


On Tuesday 08 May 2007 12:45, Rev. Jeffrey Paul wrote:
> On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 02:17:21PM -0500, Alan Bunch wrote:
> > Hello IBM, HP, anyone out there.
>
> Please save the non-technical industry handwaving for an appropriate
> forum.  (Hint: this isn't it.)
>
> Cheers,
> -j