Les Mikesell wrote:
On Sun, 2006-11-26 at 20:51, Craig White wrote:
And just in case anyone is interested and lost the original link...
http://techp.org/petition/show/1
Does anyone happen to know what companies do/don't have
cross-licensing arrangements with Microsoft already in
place? I thought this was common practice among all
big companies and that I'd seen similar things with
HP and Sun a couple of years ago - and IBM has probably
had one for ages. Why is this one even newsworthy?
There were instances where M$ would take the most likely culprits, like
laptops used by individual employees and find instances of "softshare"
violations and hold a company in threat of suit if they did not purchase
a license 6 version to "protect" them from suit.
I do not see Novell getting any benefit out of the deal w/ M$ other than
fewer lawsuits. This fear of course worked with other companies in the
past who use M$ anything. Even with Novell and M$ assuring the customers
that they will be protected, most companies are probably well underway
with migration from the bully OS to co-operative OS versions. The
partnership with those two organizations probably is seen as similar to
past blackmail schemes.
Just my views,
Jim
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It's important that people know what you stand for.
It's more important that they know what you won't stand for.
