Rick wrote:
> On Mon, 04 Dec 2006 07:42:22 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> The Ides of March Approaches for Novell
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>> | So, Novell now has something concrete to ponder - on or about the 15th
>> | of March, 2007, they should expect to lose the right to distribute
>> | updates and improvements to the very software that gives them their
>> | precious "interoperability" with Windows - Samba. And they should
>> | expect other projects to follow, leaving Novell and Microsoft to
>> | maintain their own forks.
>> `----
>>
>> http://boycottnovell.com/2006/12/04
the-ides-of-march-approaches-for-novell/
>>
>> Shuttleworth comments on the deal in the Open Week IRC chats:
>>
>> http://boycottnovell.com/2006/12/04
more-shuttleworth-on-novell-microsoft/
>
> ... and now one major distro ill be isolated. How long before the others
> are isolated and Linux based distos cease to be able to interact wth other
> operating systems?
Say what? Think again!!!!
The remarkable thing about GPL is that you can fork a project.
So as novel SuSE dies, OpenSuSE or some other variant that has
moved over to GPL3 will still continue to live.
Nothing has been lost despite a $300 million dollar assault on Linux.
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