Microsoft Pays $536M to Novell

_mArk writes "This morning Novell announced that it had settled a potential law suit with Microsoft related to its NetWare product line. Microsoft agreed to pay $536 million to Novell, but this is not the end as there is another litigation against them pertaining to WordPerfect."

Comments

Re:WordPerfect

[Lxy]

You're a fscking idiot.

Wouldn't "monopoly" imply that they have a significant user base?

I work in a Wordperfect shop. We have since started moving to Word. The users have literally started a mutiny against us, because we're taking away the superior WP product and giving them inferior Word. Some are to the point of taking their documents home and working on them in WP there, because they don't want to have to use Word. Word is an inferior product, no doubt about it.

Also, there is no such thing as WPD lock-in. WPD is one of the nicer formats out there, and if you've looked at Abiword or talked to the WP OO.o developers, you'll know that it's a lot easier to work with than .DOC. The WP format hasn't changed much since WP6.1, and opening up a WP6.1 files on Corel WP 12 is pretty slick. Try opening a complex Word document from even one version ago. Yeah, right. You'll be reformatting for hours. WP stays pretty standard on their format.

Let me guess, you've never used WP, and you've been brainwashed into thinking Word is better. Idiot.

Re:Round and round...

[stratjakt]

Do you have a source for this?

Yeah, he read it in some users comment on slashdot, that's his source.

The code MS already has is in almost every case superior to any GPL equivelant.

Either this is slashbot idiocy at it's zenith, or YHBT, HAND.