{"id":11006,"date":"2008-01-04T17:59:24","date_gmt":"2008-01-04T14:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2008\/01\/04\/on-microsoft-and-linux\/"},"modified":"2008-01-04T17:59:24","modified_gmt":"2008-01-04T14:59:24","slug":"on-microsoft-and-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2008\/01\/04\/on-microsoft-and-linux\/","title":{"rendered":"On Microsoft and Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Remember the other time I was agreeing<\/a> with Matt Mullenweg’s prediction<\/a> of Microsoft opening sources of Windows by 2017?\u00c2\u00a0 Remeber I wrote a list of bullets with my reasons?\u00c2\u00a0 Remember the first one being:<\/p>\n

Neither Microsoft in general, no Bill Gates are stupid.\u00c2\u00a0 They are very much profit oriented. Whatever makes them more money, they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll go for it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, here is another piece of news<\/a> that confirms that.<\/p>\n

Quote #1:<\/p>\n

Novell was paid a whopping $355.6 million by Microsoft in return for software licensing<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Quote #2:<\/p>\n

Microsoft purchasing 70,000 licences for Novell’s SuSE Linux enterprise server, which accounts for much of what Microsoft was paying for. Microsoft, in turn, then sells these on to its customers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Quote #3:<\/p>\n

“This is to bridge the divide between open source and proprietary source software,” said Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer at the time, in what amounted to an abrupt about-face on his part given his previous criticism of Linux. “It gives customers greater flexibility in ways they have certainly been demanding.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

Remember the other time I was agreeing with Matt Mullenweg’s prediction of Microsoft opening sources of Windows by 2017?\u00c2\u00a0 Remeber I wrote a list of bullets with my reasons?\u00c2\u00a0 Remember the first one being: Neither Microsoft in general, no Bill Gates are stupid.\u00c2\u00a0 They are very much profit oriented. Whatever makes them more money, they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll … Continue reading On Microsoft and Linux<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,6],"tags":[2076,1300,2912],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-11006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-linux","tag-microsoft","tag-novell","tag-open-source"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t