Verily I say unto thee, that Mark Kent spake thusly:
> 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
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>> Microsoft has already betrayed Novell. It happened a fortnight ago.
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> 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.
>
s/interesting/desperate/
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K.
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