Dell on Joining the Microsoft/Novell Liaison, in Video
Dr. Roy Schestowitz
2007-05-13 10:35:35 UTC
Modified: 2007-05-13 10:47:51 UTC
In the following video, Dell talks about the deal with Novell and Microsoft. It mentions the offering of IP, but that's not new anyway.
Among some quotes (roughly correct):
"...no UNIX we're [Dell] trying to protect..."
"...we're not trying to protect proprietary UNIX..."
This seems like a marriage of convenience. Remind yourselves who Novell is working with in Microsoft's Linux Labs. Here's what their principal man had to say quite recently:
"The Free Software movement is dead. Linux doesn't exist in 2007. Even Linus has got a job today." Controversial statements from the head of Microsoft's Linux Labs, Bill Hilf.
It would be nice if you would also offer your videos in a format, which can be played by Free Software.
Roy Schestowitz
2007-05-13 12:41:03
I believe YouTube allows videos to be downloaded (or grabbed/decoded) and then be played using a standard media player. A variety of formats is available, but I suspect none is truly free. I'm no fan of Flash either. Flash 8+ gets even worse because a proprietary codec is used therein. See:
They don't care about the users and issuing a few bytes with random characters costs them next to nothing. It gives them control over billions of human beings.
If even one media outlet told you in 2010 that Microsoft would fall from 100% (of Web requests) to about 1 in 8 Web requests, you'd probably struggle to believe it
Comments
akf
2007-05-13 12:06:30
Roy Schestowitz
2007-05-13 12:41:03
http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/03/19/1719216
Also a rant here:
http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/8687/1090/
Let me see if I can include links to download URLs...