Ray David Whitmer wrote (@ Quarta, 6 de Dezembro de 2006 18:44):
houghi wrote:
On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 08:44:29AM -0700, Ray
David Whitmer wrote:
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?
Wow, luckily the question is not biased. When did you stop beating your
spouce/partner/mother?
If it is only the truth that is automatically biased against you, that
is sad, and sad that a straw man is all you can set up to answer it.
True or false:
Novell agreed to pay a fee to Microsoft for patent indemnification of
its users that is based upon the number of enterprise users who buy its
product?
No, there is nothing like that in the agreement AFAIK. What happen was that
Microsoft's CEO tried to imply that Novell had signed the agreement because
it felt Linux was infringing Microsoft IP. Novell CEO has promptly responded
(the message was sent to the list and is very much worth reading) that it was
not true and stated Novell position's on the agreement. Then, Microsoft
stated that they "agreed to disagree".
Either way, this is all oral crap. It has no pratical effects, other than
trying to get people bashing Novell and Suse. Yeah, it seems that Microsoft
was an ass and tried to harm Novell. But maybe something good will come up
out of this as the agreement still stands. What the agreement says has legal
implications. The reasons why any of the parties signed it has none.
Cheers,
Ricardo
How do I avoid supporting this sort of
anti-free-software action?
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.
Unanswerd? This has been answerd before and the answer is yes.
Please, show me where you think it has been adequately answered. How
can Novell reconcile the apparently-conflicting pledges, as has been
brought up in many places?
3. Not
even Microsoft and Novell can contest the fact that they did
<snip more biased questions.>
So when have you pretended to stop drowning kittens?
Since the announcements seemed to go on about what they had to do to
get around the GPL, it was clear they were doing what they could to get
around the clearly stated principles of the GPL. I had expected a
better response from the rank and file of your company because they have
generally not been the problem in the past blunders.
Do you think this sort of approach will cause the problem you have
created to go away?
Ray Whitmer
ray(a)jhax.net
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