Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
Bernd Petrovitsch wrote:
On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 09:18 +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
[...]
This is a watershed moment for Linux. It fundamentally changes the
rules of the game. We're really excited about this deal, and we hope
you are too.
(from http://www.novell.com/linux/microsoft/openletter.html) only make
it worse, but acquisition? I'd hope not even mickey$oft has enough
cash for _that_.
And the first point in the list is "patents" ....
Bernd
I can see the lights are coming on now for some folks now.
Jeff
<snip>
/"Microsoft made it clear that only SUSE users and developers, as well
as unsalaried Linux developers, are protected. 'Let me be clear about
one thing, we don't license our intellectual property to Linux because
of the way Linux licensing GPL framework works, that's not really a
possibility,' said Microsoft chief executive, Steve Ballmer. 'Novell is
actually just a proxy for its customers, and it's only for its
customers,' he added. 'This does not apply to any forms of Linux other
than Novell's SUSE Linux. And if people want to have peace and
interoperability, they'll look at Novell's SUSE Linux. If they make
other choices, they have all of the compliance and intellectual property
issues that are associated with that.'"
</snip>
And those lights are bright indeed ....
Jeff
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