Re: [tlug] Microsoft to embrace Linux -- not a joke!

["Lyle H Saxon" <llletters@example.com>]

On 11/3/06, Josh Glover <jmglov@example.com> wrote:
> >From COLUG (http://www.colug.net/pipermail/colug432/2006-November/003627.html):
>
> Microsoft and Novell today announced heavy cooperation to ensure
> cross-compatibility between SUSE Linux and Windows.  It isn't April 1, and
> these are real links and real news!  Unbelievable.

No - completely believable, but don't take it at face value!  I
presume you are aware of the recent evidence that has come out linking
Microsoft to SCO in its legal harassing of Linux.  Microsoft is
nothing if not pragmatic - but surely you know the nature of the
beast, so don't pop Champagne corks or let your guard down over this
"Let's shake hands" blurb in the media!  (Remember tatemae & honne -
not to mention "tatemono" - ho-ho!)  As a colleague correctly states,
"Microsoft plays hardball".  (Another colleague thinks Microsoft is a
really wonderful company, to which I disagree.)  Anyway - in life, and
especially in life with robber barons and hardball Microsoft -
everything is not what it seems.  What gets into the media is only 10%
of the story.

Lyle