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[News] Bruce Perens Talks About the Novell/Microsoft Deal; GPLv3 Analysis

Is Microsoft/Novell SCO All Over Again?

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| Several days after Novell's Brainshare conference, Scott talked to
| Bruce Perens about the reaction to his news conference criticizing
| Novell's financial and development agreements with Microsoft. In
| this conversation, Scott challenges an earlier Perens statement
| that the agreement amounts to "SCO all over again."
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http://osc.gigavox.com/shows/detail1767.html

GPLv3: Free or Commercial?  

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| GPL version 3, as was the case with version 2, is merely an effort to
| protect Stallman's four essential software freedoms.
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http://www.internetnews.com/reporters_notebook/article.php/3672596

Below are some links which show that there's a coordicated effort by
Microsoft and their ilk to discredit and FUD the GPLv3.


Related:

Open sourcerers do battle for GPLv3

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| Mark Taylor, a former head of the Open Source Consortium in the UK,
| thinks the whole thing is being blown out of all proportion.
| 
| He told us: "The only people worrying about the GPL draft are people
| like ACT. Everyone else is really pleased with the draft. The original
| GPL aimed to prevent deals like the one between Novell and Microsoft.
| They just found a loophole. This draft closes it."
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/04/10/open_gpl3/


Clearing up anti-GPL3 FUD

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| Some of the bad publicity about GPL3 is deliberate. A particularly
| bad article by Dan Lyons of Forbes magazine painted an offensive
| picture of GPL3 and Richard Stallman, even accusing Stallman of
| having sex with flowers (!!!) after Lyons failed to comprehend
| a scientific joke.
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http://technocrat.net/d/2007/3/22/16651/


Perens Lashes Out at Claims GPL 3 Brings Legal Risks

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| "Let's make it clear that [ACT] is Microsoft's lobbying front and
| that they are going to paint as negative a picture as they can,"
| Perens told eWEEK in an interview.
| 
| "Obviously, GPL software is displacing Microsoft enough to have
| them concerned, and it's doing it at customers who are important
| to them. A lawyer's job is to scare the other side if they can--because
| they know it's cheaper than winning a case in court," he said. 
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2112267,00.asp


ACT ['Microsoft pressure group?'] Warns of Legal Risk with Latest GPL Draft

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| But ACT, a Washington-based technology lobby group whose membership
| includes large companies like eBay, Oracle, Orbitz and VeriSign, and
| which was founded in 1998 in response to the Microsoft antitrust case,
| is largely dismissed by those in the open-source community as nothing
| more than a lobby group for the interests of Microsoft and those
| other large corporations.
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http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Association_for_Competitive_Tecnology


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| "ACT has been accused of being an industry front for Microsoft,
| promoting a Microsoft-friendly agenda in relation to property rights
| and anti-trust legislation."
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http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Association_for_Competitive_Technology


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| Long before it employed bloggers to do the job for it, Microsoft hired
| sympathetic members of the public to make its case in online forums,
| posing as disinterested citizens. Things got much more professional as
| the antitrust trial unfurled. After hiring DCI in the late 1990s,
| Microsoft created two new trade groups, the Association for Competitive
|                                             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| Technology (ACT), and the Americans for Technology Leadership (ALT),
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| and marshaled campaigns such as "Freedom to Innovate" - encouraging
| Windows users the chance to make spontaneous gestures of support for
| Chairman Bill.
| 
| These weren't always too successful. A campaign in 2001 to petition 17
| state's Attorney Generals - who had pooled resources to bring their
| own antitrust action against Microsoft - resulted in supportive letters
| being written by dead people.
| 
| And the astroturf taint continues today.
| 
| Most recently, a spoof video portraying Al Gore as a Penguin was reported
| to have originated from a computer registered to the DCI Group, although
| the lobby group said it did not fund or approve the video.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/14/google_lobby/

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