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Re: Boycott Novell

____/ Linonut on Thursday 16 August 2007 13:09 : \____

> After takin' a swig o' grog, BearItAll belched out this bit o' wisdom:
> 
>> There is also the point that MS still has the majority of desktops, Linux
>> has no choice but to work with MS at some levels.
> 
> Hitherto, the effort has been all one-sided:  the Linux side working its
> ass off to be compatible with the products and services of a company
> which touts its "openness" to a propagandistic extent, but for which
> "openness" is actually anathema, and deliberately broken where it does
> occur by accident.
> 
> So, when people say Linux needs to cooperate with Microsoft, I say
> bullshit!  "Linux" has already bent over backwards into a pretzel loop
> to try to cooperate with the predatory monopoly.

Indeed. Microsoft bends Linux until it becomes proprietary and Free software
can no longer survive. They turn it into a Windows actalike, so its
development and distribution requires large sums of money to be paid to
Microsoft through a distributor (which must therefore get paid as well). As
Jeremy Allison told us at the time, it's an attempt to kill free _AND_ Free
software,

Novell acts selfishly (and eve admitted this). It received free GNU code. The
least it could do is honour the GPL. It did not. It betrayed its spirit and
found a loophole in v2.

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