Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (198 mails)

[Ricardo Cruz <rpmcruz@xxxxxxx>]

Ray David Whitmer wrote (@ Quarta, 6 de Dezembro de 2006 15:44):
> 1.  How does one support Suse as a customer while avoiding and opposing
> the per-seat false patent tax collected by Novell in behalf of Microsoft?
>
> 2.  Can/will Novell still use its patents to protect open projects by
> threatening to sue Microsoft to keep projects free as was pledged in the
> past.
>
> 3.  Not even Microsoft and Novell can contest the fact that they did
> their best to circumvent the intent of the GPL. 

 What happen? That's big news. I have not been able to follow slashdot, so I 
mostly follow what's posted here. Please post the developments.

Cheers,
 Ricardo

> Does this set the tone 
> for the future, especially with respect to the likely adoption of GPL v3
> terms to close the holes exploited by Microsoft through Novell in this
> case?  How do we know whether Novell will continue down this course they
> have set and work against the interests of the community?  If Microsoft
> starts threatening more actively, which this license from Novell seems
> to encourage them to do, which side is Novell on?  Will Novell campaign
> against the best interests of the community in the fighting patenting of
> Free technologies?
>
> Ray Whitmer
> ray@xxxxxxxx

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