[TriLUG] Novell & Microsoft - sleeping with the enemy

[sholton at mindspring.com]

"Andrew C. Oliver" <acoliver at buni.org> writes:

>You guys do realize that if the tech industry were actually even 1/2 as 
>conservative as any of you have specified that it would be considerably 
>smaller about now.

I work for that 'conservative' part of the tech industry; conservative 
by function and conservative by law. But even we're begining to learn
that 'conservative' does not necessarily translate into 'proprietary'.

>Brian McCullough wrote:

>> Or, "Nobody ever got fired for specifying IBM."

Yeah. I guess we should have taken the hint back when IBM started
specifying Linux.


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