Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> Why Is Dell Buying SLES certificates from Microsoft, Not Novell?
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| So, is it possible Microsoft just wants to get out of the SLES
>| certificates business quick, most specifically before GPLv3 is final?
> `----
>
> http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=2007050906365658
>
> GPLv3 & Linux: Does Dell Know Something?
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| So far, the impulse of the FOSS movement has been to use GPLv3 to
>| torpedo the MSFT-NOVL deal and discourage interoperability, not
>| exactly a customer-friendly strategy. One of the interesting
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The reason being to protect the customer from Microsoft's threats of
legal action at some random point in the future, possibly, when and if
they feel like it...
Indeed, the *whole point* of GPL3 is to protect the customer. And the
developer, and the user, and the distributor, and the vendor, and the
support house, in fact, pretty much everyone.
>| implications of the Dell announcement is that Dell must be
>| writing off the possiblity that GPLv3 will be adopted for
>| Linux. Or it is willing to support a fork into v2 and v3 versions.
> `----
Seems most unlikely. I think they'll look at v3 and say something like
*this protects us from Microsoft - let's have it!*.
>
> http://weblog.ipcentral.info/archives/2007/05/gplv3_linux_doe.html
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