[TriLUG] Novell & Microsoft - sleeping with the enemy

[Andrew C. Oliver]

So you agree that conservative isn't necessarily a (c)1980 green screen
program or happy clouds?
And maybe they aren't running OS/2 and Lotus Notes either :-)

-Andy

sholton at mindspring.com wrote:
> "Andrew C. Oliver" <acoliver at buni.org> writes:
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>> 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.
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> 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'.
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>> Brian McCullough wrote:
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>>> Or, "Nobody ever got fired for specifying IBM."
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> Yeah. I guess we should have taken the hint back when IBM started
> specifying Linux.
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