When I read shit like this it makes my fucking heart bleed.

PROPRIETARY software emperor Microsoft has struck a deal with the Linux reseller Novell to make it easier for customers to use both Linux and Microsoft’s Windows software.

The deal will make the Vole a SuSE Linux seller and will mean the pair will share technology. It means that Vole will not file patent infringement charges against users of Suse Linux, and Novell has promised not to sue users of Windows.

“I’ll scratch your back, you’ll scratch mine.”

Or..

“Let’s stop wasting money targeting eachother but lets share it, targetting everybody else.”

The shy and retiring and very softly spoken CEO and born diplomat Steve Ballmer admitted that the deal was an acknowledgement that Linux plays an “important role” at many companies these days.

What the fuck? Article is full of crock. I can remember the fat loud-mouth good-for-nothing American fuck jump up and down a stage like a monkey screaming ‘monopoly monopoly monopoly’ (ohw nevermind, that was ‘developers developers developers’).

Anyways — the article continued…

He whispered that the deal was a bridge over the divide between open-source and proprietary software.

Let me ask you one question….

WHAT IS THE FUCK WRONG WITH THAT DIVIDE?

There’s the open source community on on side, and you got the proprietary, corporate mafia on the other.

The corporate mafia of course being the one stealing and exploiting the community.

Open source IS the community and anyone that doesn’t understand that, well, what the fuck you need a computer for — your job is obviously blindly following and sucking cock. Forgive my generalisation, but I bet you voted Bush last time, and are a supporter for the war in Iraq, too.

But anyway, I remember IBM and Novel and SCO (which still ain’t resolved either), and remembered Novell’s stance back then. I almost thought they were ‘good guys’ — but now it seems that Novell are a big bunch of nasty hairy pussies you should stay the fuck away from, otherwise you’ll get entangled in its urinated pubic hair.

A developer from the WINE team commented,

[..] that the Volnovo pact would have significant negative implications for the Open Source movement.

The crux of the deal, to Wickline, is the fact that Microsoft is promising not to assert its patents against individual non-commercial developers.

Wickline said that the pact means that there will now be a Microsoft-blessed path for such people to make use of Open Source. It also sets the stage for Vole to assert its patents against all commercial Open Sourcers who are not part of the Volnovo pact.

Yeh we will all undisputably get fucked, like how these big corporations have done the little man for decades now.

We all know that it really wasn’t the technology that pushed Microsoft in their current position… From day one it used Sneaky Deals and Contracts(TM) to give their OS the place in the market that it obviously shouldn’t have gotten.

Fun thing is that Linux, OpenBSD and the plethora of open source operating systems is taking off through word of mouth. Not a single dime on marketing — not a single deal with hardware vendors (exactly the opposite even — vendors keep their specifications hidden so only the Windows-driver is available and crap like that).

And they are all gaining up on the commercial ones…. Next thing they tried to think of (Apple and Microsoft both), was digitally restricting the music — locking down playback capabilities. That ‘technology’ really is only there to further broaden the grip of their monopoly. The motivation sure as hell isn’t getting quality sound out of Joe Average’s speakers — rather to find ways not to.

It seems like, to protect their future crap position, they found yet another way… by sleeping with their own enemy. And they want us, the people in society to live a normal, honest, honourable life, while we see (and allow) these sneaky shitty corporations fuck up everything?!

Death to corporate mafia before it fucking kills us!