Patents

Yet another sucker Linux vendor caves to Microsoft.So I guess there are a lot more supposed open source OS vendors that don't give a crap about what open source stands for than I thought there were. How could so many Linux distributions make deals with Microsoft? I'm so mad at SuSE, TurboLinux, Linspire and Xandros. For shame! All of you. Have you no backbones? Morals? Brains? Thankfully, no one can steal Linux away from me. We have Canonical (Ubuntu), Redhat, and Debian still standing their ground. I hope that Microsoft and these other bozos realize that every time they make another deal like this they anger and dissolution even more people. SuSE was, up until they completely lost their minds with Microsoft, one of my favorite distros. In some strange way I'm glad they made themselves irrelevant to me and pushed me into the waiting arms of Ubuntu.

I read this article over at ZDNet about how Novell has been linked to a press release with Microsoft that states that Windows has a lower TCO than Linux. Now in this case, its within a specific company, HSBC. The article is a shill for combining Windows and Linux together, which seems to be Novell's new goal.<rant>Has Novell gotten the wolves and sheep mixed up? This is like Road Runner expecting Wile E Coyote to not try and kill him every time he runs past. I won't argue that TCO can be proven in specific cases any which way you want it to look. Not to mention that the best TCO savings are from moving away from UNIX based hardware and OS to Linux based hardware and OS.