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Novell Injects MS Lawsuit Exploit Into Open Office
F.M. Petain writes, "It looks like Microsoft's first move in the 'Linux owes us' game is to move a Pawn. A few days ago, a Novell programmer, Noel Power, submitted patches to add VBA compatibility to Open Office's spreadsheet module. This is great for people trying to convert the business desktop from closed source to open source, but is this gift really a ticking time bomb? What happens when Microsoft declares that the VBA code was stolen?" The patches may have been submitted only a few days ago, but the code must be considerably older; the article claims that nine distros in adition to SUSE already support the VBA extensions in their versions of Open Office. (Linux.com and Slashdot are both part of OSTG.)
I found it vaguely amusing/disturbing that the ad I saw below the article was a Novell advertisement for "The Linux you've always wanted."
I'll pass on MS-controlled Linux, thanks...
In between Google bowel movements.
Turn based strategy game that runs over XMPP. Phalanx
Meddle not in the affairs of Microsoft, for you are crunchy and good with ketchup.
If all my base are belong to you and I attempt to retrieve my base, does that mean I'm freebasing?
Virtual RMS? For fucks sake, we already have one real one, and that's bad enough!
By summer it was all gone...now shesmovedon. --
come on.
just yesterday ms (balmer ?) was able to say something like "linux owes us" just out of the blue,without any solid stuff around. so this wont be anything that will be exploitable by ms lawyers you say ?
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This is oblique, but not fully off-topic.
Maybe the slashdot icon for Microsoft should be switched from Bill the Borg to Admiral Akbar with Steve Balllamer's face photoshopped on.
Just a thought.
Don't blame me, I voted for Baltar.
How about replacing the regular Novell icon with an N made from thirty pieces of silver?
"...always new atoms but always doing the same dance, remembering what the dance was yesterday." -Richard Feynman
"I am altering the deal, pray I don't alter it further."
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