On 11/18/2006 11:32 AM, Chris Bonner wrote:
<mailto:susedevel@torchlighttech.com>> wrote:
OpenSuSE has no such third party software nor does it have corporate support. If you have problems you have to check out the forums. It'd be REALLY hard for Microsoft to force their patents on OpenSuse mainly because it's open source. Also, do you think the community will allow that. None of us are going to give MS the money for patents. As long as we remain open source, microsoft will be really limited. We are a community and can do what we want w or w/o microsoft. Even if Novell wanted them to, as a maintainer, they must heed to the GPL. Being such a large company, if they don't, everyone will know.
I completely agree.
That's why it's so creepy that Microsoft mentioned OpenSuse so specifically in "Microsoft’s Patent Pledge for Individual Contributors to openSUSE.org" How can this be legally binding? Did openSUSE.org sign some kind of agreement with Microsoft? Is Novell allowed to enter into legal agreements on openSUSE.org's behalf? Or is this all just smoke and hot air? Saill --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org