I've just read Bruce Perens blog about the Novell and Microsoft agreement.
One sentence that made me think is “…Novell will help Microsoft turn back the Open Document Format and substitute something Microsoft controls…” – now this is Bruce's not-so-neutral opinion, but I personally read this as “Novell might be persuaded to stop actively pushing ODF”. Maybe I misunderstand the agreement.
Basically my concern is simply thus: Why is Microsoft partnering with Novell? I'm sure they're not doing it for the fuzzy pink feeling, but rather long term commercial gain.
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Richard has over 10 years of experience developing open source software. He is the maintainer of GNOME Software, PackageKit, GNOME Packagekit, GNOME Power Manager, GNOME Color Manager, colord, and UPower and also contributes to many other projects and opensource standards. Richard has three main areas of interest on the free desktop, color management, package management, and power management.
Richard graduated a few years ago from the University of Surrey with a Masters in Electronics Engineering. He now works for Red Hat in the desktop group, and also manages a company selling open source calibration equipment. Richard's outside interests include taking photos and eating good food.
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Well, my guess is that for MS this is really about Office. And for Novell is about AD, Samba, Mono, and … Office. Jon