Steinman characterized the deal as good for the open source movement, and referred to it as the deal that "put Linux in Walmart and Nationwide Bank" (Umm, Walmart already had Linux Justin - don't know about Nationwide off the top of my head), and we all know sometimes Justin has a gift for making bombastic statements, fumbling his words or spinning the words of others, so it is alway precarious to base our speculation on Justin's statements.
"When mentioning the client side," opines an associate, "it is essential to recite the list of other markets where Microsoft is negligible or a no-show. It is repetitive to do so, but it needs saying -- often."
"As LLM slop is foisted onto the WWW in place of knowledge and real content, it now gets ingested and processed by other LLMs, creating a sort of ouroboros of crap."
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Roy Schestowitz
2007-05-24 08:19:50
http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20070524/tc_infoworld/88804;_ylt=ArgeHJ2EfyFte1wawVRe4qcjtBAF
Or here:
http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/05/23/novell_microsoft_defend_patent_deal_1.html
The link in in the item points at the EFF scoop.