Windows or open source is not the question
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| There is a lot of Linux code offered which is closed source. One of the
| leading hospital software outfits, McKesson, offers a Linux-based proprietary
| system. Nothing wrong with it.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=2355
Novell is another good example of using Linux just as a blob, which it no
longer even keeps free.
Subject: free SuSE now!
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| If Novell sells SuSE I would very much like to see SuSE and the
| Microsoft-Novell agreement end up in two unrelated corporations. That would
| solve SuSE's problems with the rest of the open source community.
|
| I think that it would also be in Novell's best interest to sell SuSE
| unencumbered with the Microsoft-Novell agreement. Novell has already learned
| the hard way that SuSE encumbered with the Microsoft-Novell agreement is
| worth significantly less that SuSE free of the agreement.
|
| According to the article Novell has tried to sell SuSE to RedHat and Sun with
| no success. I encourage Novell to keep trying. I would very much like to see
| SuSE freed from the Microsoft-Novell agreement.
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http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-04-28-012-26-OS-RH-SS-0001
Yesterday:
Should We Boycott Microsoft? Can We?
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| Except that it's not quite that simple. Microsoft's vision of “live and let
| live” is predicated on its continuing use of software patents, and of the
| open source side letting Microsoft and Novell handle all the tiresome
| implications for open source. In effect, though, this amounts to recognising
| Microsoft's patents, and accepting its “solutions” for the open source
| community. “Live and let live” turns out to be tantamount to accepting
| Microsoft's right to file, own and use software patents, which, in its turn,
| means accepting they apply to the open source world.
|
| [...]
|
| Above all, it will send a message to the company that the open source world
| is not falling for the old “embrace, extend and extinguish” trick, and that
| if Microsoft really wants collaborate, "live and let live" is simply not
| enough, because of the asymmetric bargain it implies. As a basic
| pre-condition of working together with open source, the company needs to
| accept free software's absolute foundation – the ability to share all its
| code in any way and with anyone – and that, by definition, means no software
| patents whatsoever.
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http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/should-we-boycott-microsoft-can-we
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