Alan Cox Interview
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| Personally I think it's a bad idea and that Novell are going to
| get stung by the GPLv3, and rightfully so. The license is designed
| to keep the software free, if it fails to do this then it needs
| fixing, so GPLv3 hopefully will fix this flaw.
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http://www.abclinuxu.cz/clanky/rozhovory/alan-cox?page=1
Memo to Xandros CEO: you're better off selling potatoes
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| It's amusing to note that a man becomes a recognisable public
| figure only after he's signed a deal that could well mean the
| demise of his company. Strange indeed are the ways of
| mega-corporations.
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| [...]
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| Incredibly, a patent cross-licensing deal was signed without
| once discussing patents. Now how could anyone imagine that
| people would talk about patents when they were signing
| such a deal? Silly me!
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http://www.itwire.com.au/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=12770&Itemid=1091
http://tinyurl.com/3bk78y
Related (from the weekend):
Doing the Microsoft patent dance
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| And please, Novell and Xandros, don't whine that Microsoft pulled a
| fast one on you, and reiterate that open source is clean. No one
| needed you to tell them that. Innocent until proven guilty in
| this country. And especially in light of all the evidence that
| points against such claims.
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http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2007/06/doing_the_micro.html
The New Linux Distro
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| The New Distro is Microsoft
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| These companies are now paying Microsoft. Sure, Microsoft is paying
| them as well...but the kicker is this: These companies are paying
| Microsoft for Linux.
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http://linux-blog.org/index.php?/archives/215-The-New-Linux-Distro.html
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