Novell and Microsoft... Playing Nice?
First, check out the news story at Yahoo News, here. Then you can come back and read my driveling, non-IT professional opinion.
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Done? Good.
Now then... As an Open Office user (though not Novell's version) this scares me.
Windows is so full of security holes and such a large hacker/virus target that I'm afraid improved interoperability between Office 07 and Open Office will end up leaving the latter vulnerable to attack.
Well, yea, okay, and I think Novell surrendered - if you can't beat 'em and don't want to be ground out of business by them, "partner" with them. I'm a little confused on how Novell charges for Open Office in their products since it's free and they don't own the code, but, again, I am not an IT guru, so there's probably a logical, legal explanation out there somewhere.
***
Done? Good.
Now then... As an Open Office user (though not Novell's version) this scares me.
Windows is so full of security holes and such a large hacker/virus target that I'm afraid improved interoperability between Office 07 and Open Office will end up leaving the latter vulnerable to attack.
Well, yea, okay, and I think Novell surrendered - if you can't beat 'em and don't want to be ground out of business by them, "partner" with them. I'm a little confused on how Novell charges for Open Office in their products since it's free and they don't own the code, but, again, I am not an IT guru, so there's probably a logical, legal explanation out there somewhere.
posted by Dy at 7:15 AM
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