[Novalug] Cripes: MS Sells Novell to Walmart

[Michael Stone]

On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 10:49:14PM -0500, gregory pryzby wrote:
>I read the comments and all I will say, is I read lots of 'tin foil'
>reactionary comments.

I don't think you're so naive as to fail to understand how novell 
brought that on itself.

>Walmart has decided that they like SUSE Linux Enterprise and are
>looking at it for a number of solutions. Microsoft fulfilled the
>purchase (liek a CDW).

To say that Microsoft is like CDW is frankly disingenuous. If you 
want to say that novell decided to ride Microsoft's coattails because 
it was thought that leveraging MS's power in IT negotiations would be 
profitable, fine--but don't pretend that CDW could ever play a similar 
role because they aren't a monopoly. (Nor have they made public 
statements questioning the legality of their competitors' products and 
attacking the structure on which that product is based.)

Mike Stone