Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> __/ [ John A. Bailo ] on Thursday 22 March 2007 04:16 \__
>
>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>
>>> Ron's [Novell CEO] Tiny Regret
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>> | Apparently, Ron Hovsepian does indeed regret the IP covenant aspect
>>> | of the Microvell deal, and he confirms that it was Microsoft that
>>> | brought that aspect of the agreement to the table in the first place.
>>> `----
>>>
>>> http://boycottnovell.com/2007/03/21/rons-tiny-regret/
>>
>> Look, he admitted it was wrong and MS ramrodded it in the agreement.
>>
>> Can't you cut Hovsepian a bit of slack?
>>
>> I'm really suspecting that RS has his own agenda here.
>>
>> Who's paying Roy? RedHat? Shuttleworth?
>>
>> Come on, lay your cards down.
>
> Can't you see the deal is hurting Free software in general? I have no
> affiliation with any such company and I even used to be a fan of Novell's
> work, being a SuSE user. Red Hat's flirting with Microsoft over
> interoperability strikes a nerve as well and I'm evidently not the only one
> that's suspicious (Michael Larabel begins to think about Ubuntu when he
> hears about it).
>
> Novell made a mistake and got received to make to make it. It's /that/
> simple.
>
Should Novell return the funds to Microsoft, and/or renegotiate the deal
with the patent rubbish removed from it, then, and *only* then, will I
remotely believe that there is any real contrition in the Novell camp.
Personally, I do not believe that Hovsepian didn't know what he was doing.
I'm quite happy to accept that he's reasonably incompetent around this
area, of course, and failed to see the enormous gaping man-trap two
feet in front of him, but I'm certain that he would have had a legal
team looking over the deal anyway, to protect himself from such problems.
The implications of this particular deal will reverberate around the
free software world for years, however, GPLV3 should prevent Mr
Hovsepian from being "ramrodded" in the same way again.
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