Balmer: Novell/Suse foi apenas o começo

Por: em 09/11/06 na(s) categoria(s): Linux

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Steve Ballmer declarou, na quinta-feira:

Adoraríamos fazer o mesmo tipo de cordo com qualquer um que distribua Linux. Red-Hat, qualquer um.

Ou seja: Os fãs que estão apavorados, iniciando campanhas irresponsáveis sugerindo que os usuários abandonem o SUSE, não terão para onde correr.

O mercado quer o Linux, mas somente se este for um produto profissional, e isso envolve mais do que código decente. Envolve credibilidade, suporte, estabilidade enquanto empresa.

Os analistas prevêem um excelente futuro para o Linux no mercado corporativo, ironicamente o principal parceiro será a Microsoft.

Ballmer termina a entrevista, declarando:

A próxima fronteira para nós é aotar um novo modelo de negócios. Se o adotarmos corretamente, e esse modelo é o de assinaturas e publicidade, seremos um líder de mercado. Se não p adotarmos corretamente, haverá problemas.

Fonte: ZDNet

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  • Daniel Fonseca Alves

    Assinaturas e Publicidade ?
    Será que a Microsoft vai fazer concorrência com a Veja e a Época ?

    Pode ser interessante, assine o Microsoft Vista e receba em casa atualizações e notícias, além de um DVD e um celular. :-D

    • http://pietra@hotmail.com Anônimo

      É o mesmo modelo que o SUSE e o Red-Hat usam…

  • Donnie Darko

    como não terão para onde correr???
    Debian, cara pálida…Debian… hehehe.

  • putzgrila

    http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20061113&mode=1#comments

    80 • Novell/Suse and Microsoft (by spiritraveller on 2006-11-14 15:33:52 GMT from United States)
    If Novell is “licensing” Microsoft’s patents, then it is in violation of the GPL. ALL of the developers who contributed code to ANY of the software included in SUSE will have a copyright claim against Novell, because Novell would be engaged in the unauthorized distribution of their copyrighted works.

    I hope Novell got some of Microsoft’s lawyers in this deal, because it looks like they have a lot of litigation ahead of them. There are a lot of big companies (Red Hat, IBM, Sun just to name a few) who have contributed code to the Linux kernel and the programs distributed with it.

    Expect to see those companies join the Free Software Foundation in fighting this. Microsoft and Novell have set this up to give the appearance that only Novell has the right to distribute the work of these other people and these other companies. It’s a fancy way of trying to steal their work.

    If Microsoft really wants to assert its patents against Linux, it will have to sue Linux users and distributors directly. But that would be a pretty big public relations gamble. They would be seen as more evil than any other company (which they are). They have to make that choice. They can’t make a deal with one Linux company and kill the rest. It’s all or nothing.

  • putzgrila

    http://linux.slashdot.org/linux/06/11/26/0152225.shtml

    #
    MS lawyers may just have discovered how they can use the soon to be here GPL v3 to kill the FOSS community:

    1. Make a deal with Novell (the 2nd largest commercial distro)
    2. Wait for GPL v3
    3. Pissed off FOSS developers changes to GPL v3
    4. Commercial customers and software companies drop Linux because of GPLv3
    5. Novell dies (or is bought by MS)
    6. Red Hat is reduced to nothing
    7. FOSS is again a non-issue on the commercial market
    8. MS profit

    …that’s the plan, directly from Redmond,WA.

    I just can’t understand why Novell didn’t see this…

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