21 Dec
2006
21 Dec
'06
12:58 p.m.
2006/12/21, doxa@sancharnet.in doxa@sancharnet.in:
plan to work together to develop, test, validate or ensure that products conform to standards and deploy new products, while also collaborating on sales and marketing..."
Does it mean that HP printers will start misbehaving with Free Software ?
Isn't it clear that the agreement is to ensure that products conform to
standards (along with many other goals)?
HP and Microsoft were always good partners and that didn't affect HP's policy towards Free and Open Source Software till now and I don't think it is going to change after this deal.
Cheers Praveen
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