How Microsoft dealt with GPLv3
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| It appears that the standard operating procedure for Microsoft will be to
| send open sourced partners into the GPLv3 car park.
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http://www.builderau.com.au/blogs/betaliving/viewblogpost.htm?p=339270849
They also do this with XenSource and Citrix. They buy proxies. de Icaza is the
leader of the proxy element inside Novell.
Novell and open source's long memory
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| If Novell's Linux business continues to grow, and it does this without the
| crutch of Microsoft, people will forgive and forget...slowly. In the
| meantime, Novell can't pretend that it's loved by the open-source community.
| The Microsoft deal did far too much damage to its credibility to expect that.
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http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9772683-16.html
Open source doesn’t forget
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| My recent Novell post got some private push-back from a Novell spokesman who
| insisted that I was being harsh.
|
| [...]
|
| I suspect many marketers, public relations experts and even executives
| entering open source for the first time don’t understand this point. They
| want to be judged on what they say today, and only today.
|
| Sorry, folks. New rule. Open source doesn’t forget.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=1389
So, once again, Novell is harassing a blogger who criticises the company. This
isn't the first time. They sounds more land more like SCO and Microsoft as the
days go by.
Related:
Prisoner of Redmond: Yet Another Way Paul Allen Isn't Like You or Me
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| Robert X. Cringely reveals the true reason why Paul Allen of Microsoft fame
| left the Redmond company, even though it was on track to become an
| extremely valuable stock. Considering Microsoft's track record and behavior
| over the years, this should not be surprising, but if true it is beyond
| pall!
|
| [...]
|
| There are hundreds of Microsoft millionaires (and even a few
| Microsoft billionaires) in the suburbs of Seattle. [Roy: there used to be a
| blurb here about their retirement and guilt, due to ethics]
|
| [...]
|
| During one of those last long nights working to deliver DOS 2.0 in
| early 1983, I am told that Paul Allen heard Gates and Ballmer discussing
| his health and talking about how to get his Microsoft shares back if
| Allen were to die.
|
| Maybe that's just the sort of fiduciary discussion board members have to
| have, but it didn?t go over well with Paul Allen, who never returned to
| Microsoft, and over the next eight years, made huge efforts to secure
| his wealth from the fate of Microsoft.
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http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20060330.html
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