>From freedom to slavery; a week of two distros
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| It is interesting that Novell chooses to say they negotiated this
| agreement on "behalf" of all software contributors to (and
| customers) of Novell. Some of my packages are included in SuSE,
| though, strangely, I do not recall them ever asking me to negotiate
| this agreement on my behalf. That it claims to only protect "non
| commercially involved? contributors, it?s clear it is about limiting
| what I can do and to whom I can safely distribute my code through.
| It's meant to threaten and intimidate those who develop software
| in freedom, and to control what they will be allowed to do. I do
| not remember requesting to become Novell?s slave, or of desiring
| to pay a Microsoft slug for the right to practice freedom. As such
| it is an insult to everyone who has ever contributed code that they
| now use.
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http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/node/1851
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