On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 11:28:22PM +0100, Theo v. Werkhoven wrote:
You can try to be as positive as you like about this "deal" houghi, but in the end you know just as well as the rest that MS is not in it to make nice with OSS "community" or anyone supporting OSS for that matter, they're it it to find some way to make themselfs come out on top.
I am not positive, nor negative. I am realistic and say that we need to wait. In the end Novell wants to make money with the deal as well. SUSE used to be a company that was in it for the money as well. The fact that Microsft wants to make money as well is only very normal to me. So what do you expect? That Microsoft suddenly decides to stop their business, had over all the code to GPL and give the money they have to the IFF? I am absolutely uninterested in what Miscrosoft is doing, because there is nothing that has changed. So what if they have deal with Novell? I have heard no alternatives as to what should have been done. Not signing I asume would be how most people would have liked it and I am curious why. Probably because Microsoft is 'the enemy'.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/11/11/microsoft_patent_kuhn_warning/
All that is saying is that they *STILL* can sue over patents, so from that point of vieuw nothing has changed. It was not that suddenly they are able to do so. It is not that they could not try to slip some code into OSS before.
I for one am not going to spend more money on Novell either, until I am very convinced that this really *is* a good deal for OSS and "freedom as in speech".
Either? I have not spend any money on them ever. The latest I spend money was SuSE 9.1 and I am angry with myself for buying so many versions. Now I just download the stuff. I will not look wether this is a good deal for OSS, what I am interested is that it is not a bad one and nothing is pointing in that direction, exept FUD coming from the OSS and Linux front itself. And to me that points to Anti-Microsoft attitude, instead of Pro-Linux or Pro-OSS. houghi -- To have a nice mailinglist experience, follow the guidelines below:
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