Re: [Staffslug] Re: The end of the world [but I feel fine]

On Friday 03 November 2006 19:01, Kevanf1 wrote: > It has come...the end of the world as we know it. Microsoft and > Novell are now partners in crime. I really don't know if it's a good > thing or not. It's hard to be entirely sure - on the one hand, anything that keeps wholly Free Software interoperable is good (and Michael Meeks says the move is good on his blog, so it must be okay =^) On the other, well there are a few problems. Some interesting angles are discussed in a longish thread on the Open Document Fellowship mailing list here: http://lists.opendocumentfellowship.org/pipermail/odf-discuss/2006-Novemb... I don't actually think this changes anything as far as Novell are concerned, and the Free Software will be unaffected, so I'd probably save energy to worry about BSF,`` trusted'' hardware, Blu-Ray DRM, software patents re-introduced by the back door, Gordon Brown, illegal agreements with OEMs/ISVs, the UK's lamentable state of IT education, and all of the other pressing problems that Free Software has. Hmm - you know looking at that list, I can't think why I bother getting out of bed in the morning ;^0 - Richard