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Microsoft's Chief Linux Strategist Interviewed

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the shape-of-things-to-come dept.

sl0wp0is0n writes "Computerworld has published an interview with Microsoft's chief Linux strategist, Martin Taylor. It's interesting to find out that Microsoft thinks and predicts Novell (SuSE) will be the dominant Linux distribution they'll have to compete against. The interview also has Taylor talking about indemnification, IBM and his realization that customers generally adopt Linux to get a better TCO than Unix, not Windows."

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  1. MS stands behind its products? by Quila · · Score: 5, Informative
    One other thing that's come up more over the last 12 months is this notion of indemnification [against patent and copyright claims]. ... We really stand behind our technology in a pretty aggressive way. We should make sure that we get credit for that compared to Linux in many ways.

    Okay, let's look at the XP license:
    Privacy: (MS) 16. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES.... ALSO, THERE IS NO WARRANTY OR CONDITION OF TITLE, QUIET ENJOYMENT, QUIET POSSESSION, CORRESPONDENCE TO DESCRIPTION OR NON-INFRINGEMENT WITH REGARD TO THE SOFTWARE.


    That's really backing up your software guys.
  2. Re:I can't work out what this means by Waffle+Iron · · Score: 5, Informative
    WTF is a "stack" in this sense?

    A stack is a vertically integrated solution. For example, it can be a combination of OS, network severs, application servers and management tools all provided in one package by a single vendor. Ideally, all of the components of the stack have been pre-tested to work together smoothly.