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Reading SFLC's GPL Compliance Guide
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| IANAL, but the GPL Compliance Guide I cited from is prepared for the Software
| Freedom Law Center by Bradley M. Kuhn, Aaron Williamson, and Karen M.
| Sandler, the last two of them being lawyers. I suppose they know what they
| mean.
|
| Unless I am unable to understand the intricacies of the American legal
| system, SFLC's GPL Compliance Guide just proves Novell guilty for not making
| available ALL the sources to ANYONE who might own the corresponding binaries.
|
| You can't build a "community enterprise Linux" out of SLED/SLED the same way
| you can build it out of RHEL's sources, because you can't have security
| updates. This being said, SLED/SLED is open-source... only on paper. As an
| acknowledgment of this hypocritical behavior of Novell, Microsoft has now
| agreed to buy $100m more worth of SLES coupons. Do you still wonder why?
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http://beranger.org/index.php?page=diary&2008/08/21/09/18/18-reading-sflc-s-gpl-compliance-gu
Recent:
Novell congratulates itself for snogging Microsoft
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| Novell wants you to know that selling its soul to Steve Ballmer was a really
| good idea.
|
| On the last day of 2007, two separate Novell execs tossed up blog posts
| congratulating themselves for agreeing to that "interoperability partnership"
| with Microsoft, a year-old deal intent on forcing an unholy relationship
| between Linux and Windows.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/03/linux_pats_self_on_back/
Is it Microsoft + Novell or Microsoft vs. Novell?
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| Actually, this is very surprising. I've started to notice a trend in all the
| announcements the two companies have made over the past year: Novell stresses
| interoperability while Microsoft beats its drum on patent protection.
|
| [...]
|
| I wonder how long Microsoft will continue its efforts to try to cast the deal
| as about IP. It's not for Novell, it seems to me now. Microsoft did the deal
| to hurt Linux - there's no other explanation for it. It has no fiduciary duty
| to enable a competitor (unless its a weaker competitor against the Linux
| market leader, Red Hat). It has a fiduciary duty to kill that competitor.
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http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9813681-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad
Novell expands Microsoft alliance with China deal
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| Because Linux software is available free of charge, many Chinese businesses
| use it without paying. These companies miss out on the service, support, and
| upgrades that companies like Novell can provide. By encouraging Chinese firms
| to pay for Linux, Microsoft is helping Novell tap a valuable revenue stream.
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http://www.boston.com/news/world/asia/articles/2008/04/21/novell_expands_microsoft_alliance_with_china_deal/
Related:
Novell uses Microsoft FUD to market itself
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| That these claims also could be taken to mean that Novell is developing a
| non-standard Linux, one that is skewed only towards working with Windows,
| appears to have escaped Novell.
|
| In other words, Novell has an "in" with Microsoft which Red Hat does not;
| Utah and Redmond are in bed together and Red Hat is an intruder.
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http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/14695/1091/
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