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Re: [News] Novell Slammed by Perens, Corrected (Set Straight) by FSF

  • Subject: Re: [News] Novell Slammed by Perens, Corrected (Set Straight) by FSF
  • From: flyer <flyer@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 19:16:19 -0700
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: The Los Angeles Free-Net
  • References: <1367831.D3KSWHL3T2@schestowitz.com>
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  • Xref: ellandroad.demon.co.uk comp.os.linux.advocacy:506519
In article <1367831.D3KSWHL3T2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, 
newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx says...
> Perens blasts Microsoft/Novell "protection racket"
> 
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | Salt Lake City -- In a small conference room across the street from
> | the location of Novell's BrainShare conference, free-software
> | advocate Bruce Perens attacked Novell's patent deal with Microsoft
> | and said that Novell was enabling Microsoft to run "a protection 
> | racket" with the threat of its patents.
> |
> | [...]
> |
> | More than that, though, Perens said, if the Novell-Microsoft patent deal is 
> | allowed to stand. It would take only as few as "two or three intellectual 
> | property law-suits" of open-source developers or small business at a cost 
> | of at least $5 million dollars a pop, to destroy open-source development. 
> | So, from where he sits, Novell is running a "protection racket" with "Big 
> | Mikey" as the enforcer
> `----
> 
> http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS9126255519.html
> 
> FSF Corrects Novell's Steinman and a Request to End the Mystery
> 
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | Well. He has achieved his goal of being extremely clear. But in
> | doing so, I would have to say he has stooped to a new low of
> | Not-Really-Part-of-the-FOSS-Community awful. It's not the only
> | offensive statement in that interview, but it is the most serious.
> | Perhaps he was misquoted. Let's give him the benefit of that one doubt.
> `----
> 
> http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070317032834650
> 
> BrainShare: The Heart of Novell
> 
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | For the first time, I decided to attend Novell's BrainShare conference.
> | In the past I have been resistant to attending single-vendor sponsored
> | shows, because once you attend one, you'd better get yourself to others,
> | if only to avoid bias. I was able to get clearance for both BrainShare 
> | and Red Hat's Summit in May, so I figured I'd achieved my balance.
> `---- 
> 
> http://blog.linuxtoday.com/blog/archives/070318-234645.html
> 

Thanks. This is better than trying to figure out how Novell in some way 
did something beneficial.

They are heavy traitors and should die with the rest of the fools who 
trusted MS.

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