helped Microsoft in validating that Linux infringes
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| dinotrac Jun 09, 2012 5:16 AM EDT |
upon its bogus patents? Will wonders never cease? You want to get pissed off at somebody for validating bogus Microsoft patents, get pissed off at LG, Samsung, HTC and Acer for signing licensing agreements with Microsoft for Android. Microsoft makes more money licensing Android now that it does from Windows phone! That's validating Microsoft patents. Novell (not SuSE), on the other hand, extracted hundreds of millions from Microsoft -- didn't pay them a freakin' dime -- in patent infringement settlements/awards. The patent language was a last-minute throw-in and didn't extract anything from Novell or make any difference in the agreed terms. Novell would have been idiotic to let such meaningless language throw a monkey-wrench into a 350 million dollar settlement, and yet... their victory was met with all of the yelling and screaming that should be reserved for the phone companies who are actually paying good money to Microsoft. I love free software. I love free software people, but, for such a smart group of people, we can really be morons. |
| jacog Jun 09, 2012 6:09 AM EDT |
Azure? Innat the thingo that completely died and completely cut off all its customers due to a *nyarf* leap year bug? |
| Fettoosh Jun 09, 2012 9:40 AM EDT |
Quoting:Azure? Innat the thingo that completely died and completely cut off ... May be you are thinking of Zune, Azure is MS cloud computing services platform. Everything You Need to Know About Microsoft Azure |
| vagabondo Jun 10, 2012 12:56 AM EDT |
@Fettoosh No it was Azure that was unavailable this year -- one of MSs regular leap-year failures. Azure does not have a very good history of upt-ime. |
| gus3 Jun 10, 2012 6:39 AM EDT |
And they want the world to run Linux on Azure? Sure, if nine 5's of uptime is important. (Yes, I typed that right.) |
| Fettoosh Jun 10, 2012 9:18 AM EDT |
Quoting:No it was Azure that was unavailable this year I didn't know, thanks. So MS Azure is coming back from the dead, or dead computer running! :-) |
| jdixon Jun 10, 2012 10:23 AM EDT |
>...or dead computer running! This is Windows we're talking about. At best it can only walk, not run. |
| montezuma Jun 10, 2012 10:43 AM EDT |
I wonder what the deal was here with Ubuntu. I suspect Shuttleworth rather than Ballmer was the winner. Why waste time with a system with a dubious future unless money was involved. Ballmer these days is totally behind the 8 ball. With a pile of loot from the Windows tax that makes him a tempting sucker target. |
| Fettoosh Jun 10, 2012 10:59 AM EDT |
Quoting:This is Windows we're talking about. At best it can only walk, not run. Thanks, I knew that! I was going to edit it after I posted it to rhyme with "dead man walking" but was too lazy. :-) |
| Fettoosh Jun 10, 2012 11:12 AM EDT |
Quoting:Why waste time with a system with a dubious future unless money was involved. I believe the benefit Ubuntu is after and hopes to accomplish by joining with MS is to infiltrating the market where Red Hat is flourishing. Unless Shuttleworth learned from Novell's mistakes and taken special precautions, it is the same desperate thinking that eventually led to Novell's demise. |
| caitlyn Jun 11, 2012 12:11 PM EDT |
What I find interesting is that while some on here are attacking Red Hat eight ways to Sunday, Mr. Shuttleworth, Canonical and Ubuntu seem to get a free pass after making a deal with Microsoft. Why is that? |
| JaseP Jun 11, 2012 12:14 PM EDT |
Everyone already knows that Ubuntu is opportunistic. We expect better from Red Hat, maybe?!?! |
| caitlyn Jun 11, 2012 1:51 PM EDT |
Quoting:Everyone already knows that Ubuntu is opportunistic. We expect better from Red Hat, maybe?!?!Red Hat isn't being opportunistic. They are doing what they must to survive in today's (unfortunate) IT business environment. In my view they are better and that hasn't changed. |
| tracyanne Jun 11, 2012 9:21 PM EDT |
Shrug, it's just business. Microsoft need help to get Azure out there.Ubuntu need help to get more Ubuntu in the Enterprise. Microsoft seel more Azure licenses, Ubuntu sell more support contracts. Linux becomes more pervasive in the server room. |
| vainrveenr Jun 12, 2012 11:26 AM EDT |
Quoting:Everyone already knows that Ubuntu is opportunistic. We expect better from Red Hat, maybe?!?! This begs the immediate question of What are the "better" expectations from Red Hat? Clearly, Ubuntu is "opportunistically" scaling up competition with Red Hat in the Enterprise. The same holds true for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. To remain competitive and to essentially "survive in today's (unfortunate) IT business environment", naturally, Red Hat must follow suit. Fairly straightforward. A perhaps "better" question one could pose on this is How will this competition among major Linux Server vendors to accommodate Azure be leveraged to non Enterprise-oriented distros and FOSS vendors (i.e., the Desktop) ?? |
| Fettoosh Jun 12, 2012 12:02 PM EDT |
Quoting:Linux becomes more pervasive in the server room. Only if MS doesn't sabotage to prevent it. |
| JaseP Jun 12, 2012 12:44 PM EDT |
Azure's a red herring,... It's M$'s attempt to be the "me too" kid when it comes to cloud services and virtualization. I'm unimpressed. Users will be too unless the platform can be delivered with rock solid up times. If you hadn't figured it out fro my previous post,... it was quasi sarcastic, by the way... But there is a silver lining of truth there. The open source community expects RH to be the pillar of the community, along with Linus and RMS. A white hat programmer, and idealist, and a company that actually managed to make something of it all... Of course, I'm oversimplifying... |
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