__/ [ flyer ] on Sunday 08 April 2007 04:07 \__
> In article <2551442.TUnObqgcfL@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx says...
>> Grandfather clause ticks off Linux set
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | What so enraged the founder of the GNU Project and the FSF, Richard
>> | Stallman, is the fact that Novell and Microsoft have agreed not to
>> | sue in the event of any dispute over patents or intellectual property
>> | (IP). To Stallman, private alliances like this, and even the very
>> | idea of intellectual property in software, are the antithesis of
>> | what open source should be.
>> `----
>>
>>
http://www.itweek.co.uk/itweek/comment/2187308/grandfather-clause-ticks-linux
>>
>> Novell Responds With More Spin
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | Did anyone at Novell wonder why these IP concerns weren't affecting
>> | Red Hat adoption rates? This just sounds like weak salespeople,
>> | honestly, who are accepting the clients excuses instead of
>> | working through them.
>> `----
>>
>> http://boycottnovell.com/2007/04/07/novell-responds-with-more-spin/
>>
>
> WHAT?? Novell, SCO still around?
>
> I thought they would be digital mist by now.
They are on the queue. Microsoft controls them for the time being and hasn't
gotten around to destorying them completely, yet. First Microsoft wants to
use them as a puppet to promote is own agenda (e.g. .Net, Samba, OOXML,
anti-Linus legal fights). The Novell and SCO marionettes have got some
lifetime left... but they sold out... at least the execs are happy.
--
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