Re: [opensuse-project] Unnanswered questions regarcing Novell-Microsoft agreements
On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 11:24:42AM -0700, Ray David Whitmer wrote:
Marcus Meissner wrote:
On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 01:31:45PM +0000, Ricardo Cruz wrote:
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.
The original poster is just a troll, all points have been brought up multiple times and refuted here and by official statements from us.
I am sorry you feel you have to call something a troll rather than answering questions that were avoided in the meeting and have not been competently addressed, that I have seen.
My colleages and myself have answered questions like those several times.
Please provide specific references where each of these issues has been addressed -- the best answer you are aware of, not SCO-style just claiming it must be in there somewhere.
Your own opinions are regularly called trolls in other forums where people value software freedom and do not appreciate attacks on it that Novell seems to be assisting.
You seem to repudiate the claim at the end of the meeting that remaining questions could be addressed here.
1. You allege there is a per seat tax. There is no such thing.
Here you should show us proof, not the other way round.
2. http://www.novell.com/linux/microsoft/community_open_letter.html
It is very clear on this topic.
3. http://en.opensuse.org/Meetings/Special_Meeting_2006-11-27/transcript
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houghi
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Marcus Meissner
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Ray David Whitmer