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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."
first post, no way!
found out about the usersK of NetBSD and as BSD sinks t4e mundane chores
Personally, Word is easy to get and use and it happens to be better than what Corel/Novell was offering at the time and thats why it won out.
This is simply not correct as you are stating a subjective opinion as fact. Studies show that Word is no easier to use, and they have far from "won out" as MS's office suite is losing market share. Superior word processing has always been in the realm of Novell, and you are simply biting on Microsoft's marketing bait.
I guess we now know why microsoft was holding all of that cash.
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This is simply not correct as you are stating a subjective opinion as fact. Studies show that Word is no easier to use, and they have far from "won out" as MS's office suite is losing market share. Superior word processing has always been in the realm of Novell, and you are simply biting on Microsoft's marketing bait.
Go ahead and show me these studies. I want to see studies that aren't linked from Abiword, OpenOffice, or StarOffice's sites. I also want to see these studies done by legitimate sources and not the "subjective opinions" of Jerry Foo's tech blog.
Do you mean Novell has always had superior word processing after it purchased WordPerfect and before it sold it back off to Corel in 1996?
Looks like you are the recipient of ownage by garcia.
The decline in "mass marketing" music is, I hope, just another indicator of a movement I call (since I haven't seen another term yet) relativity. In small, even unconscious steps, people are beginning to choose again, and in their choices are beginning to reject the mass-market manufactured identities. Not overtly, aside from some there are some granola/vegan-types, but just from personal inclination.
Consider beer (a good example for the slashdot crowd). The big breweries (Bud/Miller/etc) sales flatlined and are slipping downward, because a small (if growing) segment of the market would rather drink a decent microbrew. Oh, and mass-market beer typically tastes like watered down horse piss--but I digress.
Similarly, a small (perhaps growing) segment of the music audience has decided that it would rather listen to ____ (I need a term for the Anti-Britany Spears [Anti-BS?] music). Oh, and mass-market music continues to churn out the audio equivalent of watered down horse piss.
So go to a locally owned clothing store instead of walmart. Download a local band's MP3 instead of buying a CD. Go to a real restaurant, instead of the latest franchised food chain. And do these things simply because you like them, because the choice(s) are relative to what you enjoy, rather than because you are dedicated to an anti-big business "cause." That is a marketing paradigm shift in the making.
Americans appear to be choosing quality over pre-fabricated identity. If so, maybe we aren't dead yet...