OT: The rubber sword of Damocles

[Rahul Sundaram]

Andy Green wrote:
> Michael Wiktowy wrote:
> 
>> Just finished watching the Novell/MS press conference and it looks
>> like MS is trying to spread the software patent bogeyman again (now
>> that their ploy with SCO isn't quite panning out as they imagined) but
>> it seems to me due to the complex entanglement of upstream
> 
> Complex entanglement of people all based in Utah, too.
> 
>> contributers, they would have a hard time pursuing any IP rights
>> against anyone in the Open Source community now ... including Red Hat.
>>
>> Here's to hoping that Novell is acting in the greater good on the Open
>> Source community rather than self interests.
> 
> Bah everyone is running around trying to screw RHAT at the moment, we 
> are expected to believe that the recent kicks to the belly are not 
> coming from the same foot?
> 
> http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=NOVL&t=3m&l=on&z=m&q=l&c=RHAT,ORA
> 

Oracle is ORCL and not ORA FYI.

Rahul