In that light, and given the above statement: is there still anybody around who thinks Citrix’ acquisition of Xen happened without the big aircraft carrier sending his steering signals?

Citrix clearly is acting as a Microsoft proxy in the Xen affair.

Same situation with Novell. It’s a patent proxy, a GPL proxy (Microsoft wants no direct touch with the licence), an anti-Red Hat proxy, a pro-OOXML proxy, a proxy against the EC’s actions, and a few other things. We’ve covered all of this before.

http://www.eweek.com/print_article2/0,1217,a=218979,00.asp

One of them is Citrix. Now listen to what Citrix’ CEO has to say about Microsoft ():

“Microsoft is a giant aircraft carrier. They move at very deliberate and predictable speed in enterprise computing. You know where they will be two or three years from now. So the onus is on you as a company to listen to those signals and steer with that, instead of getting in front of the aircraft carrier or getting swamped in the wake of it.”

You can bet that Microsoft is also *able* to tell their “partners” where they will be in two or three years from now. And they’ll do so if they want. For sure they’ll tell where they *don’t* want their partners to be.

In that light, and given the above statement: is there still anybody around who thinks Citrix’ acquisition of Xen happened without the big aircraft carrier sending his steering signals?

Citrix clearly is acting as a Microsoft proxy in the Xen affair.

Now let’s see if Citrix will keep obeying their masters, or if they start running with the loot, once they see that the aircraft carrier shows signs of heading towards an iceberg, or some other major leakage having occurred that dissallows it to keep course and full steam….

So, from the wording “alliance” you conclude that “they are working together to push all other Linux vendors out of the market”?

No, the two statements are completely independent.

The fact that the two companies liaise to fight other companies like Red Hat is nothing new. We said that many times before. The new new bit is to do with terminology and “alliance” is a very strong word.

Remember that Novell had anti-Windows messages in its Web site. Shortly after the deal with Microsoft, Novell ‘cleaned up’ its site.

Your blogging grows evermore far-fetched.

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I would say your link to Mary Jo Foley’s article is wrong.

Oopsie. Should work fine now.

This whole accessibility charade reminds me the anti ODF FUD that they tried once.

Yes, indeed. It took ages to squash that nasty FUD (screen magnifiers and the use of blind people to block or suppress ODF acceptance in Massachusetts). See notes on accessibility FUD in MA here and a good video of Mr. Korn on ODF accessibility here.

New Collaboration to Improve Computer Access for People With Disabilities

This whole accessibility charade reminds me the anti ODF FUD that they tried once.