On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 09:19:38 +0100, Mark Kent <mark.kent@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
>Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> Microsoft Strikes GPLv3 Software From Linspire Patent Deal
>>
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>>| Microsoft says software that's licensed under a new version of a popular open
>>| source license isn't covered by the patent protection deal it recently signed
>>| with desktop Linux distributor Linspire.
>> `----
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>> http://www.informationweek.com/windows/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=201001836
>>
>> Microsoft has already betrayed Novell. It happened a fortnight ago.
>
>Haha! Hardly surprising, this.
>
>In case anyone hasn't realised, this has become Microsoft's anti-GPLv3
>campaign, ably assisted by various open-source luminaries, naturally.
>
>Microsoft's intent is that customer pressure will somehow force
>Linspire, Novell and others to avoid GPLv3, who will then somehow push
>back on the GPLv3 projects through forking or pressure to get them back
>onto GPLv2.
>
>It won't work, because they're trying to push a pyramid from the point,
>but it's an interesting attempt.
Well said Mark.
I hope Novell and the others find a way to get out of their ambiguous
deals with Microsoft.
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