Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (193 mails)

[James Tremblay <jamesat@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 11 April 2007 07:28, Dominique Leuenberger wrote:
> >>> On 11-04-2007 at 14:14, James Tremblay <jamesat@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> wrote:
> > Speaking of new look and feel what are all these guys ranting about?
> > http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/04/10/0252229
> > it appears to me that OpenSUSE decided to be conservative in package
> >
> > inclusion
> > and remove "cleartype" how is this a problem to all these guys. could
> >
> > someone
> > enlighten me?
> > James
>
> To me, the author of that article appears just one more who did not
> understand the Novell-MS deal. Novell did NOT get a Patent License (AFAI
> understood), but only 'bought' the guarantee that, should Novell
> infringe any patents, the Novell Users will not be sued. This will by no
> way allow Novell just to go on and infringe all MS patents. Why: only
> the Novell-USERS can not be sued. There was not a single word written
> that NOVELL can not be SUED... which, in fact, anyhow would be much more
> likely than MS suing any single user of any Linux distro.
>
> But it's like this... bloggers blog to blog... but many just don't read
> and understand what about they blog. sometimes a really bad story.
>
> --
> Dominique Leuenberger
>
thanks to all for the enlightenment
I knew there wasn't any hanky panky

-- 
James Tremblay
Director of Technology
Newmarket School District
Novell CNE 3\4\5
CLE \ NCE in training.
http://en.opensuse.org/education
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