-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 El 2007-05-23 a las 14:10 +0200, Rafa Grimán escribió:
Si y no, porque ha salido pagando M$.
Cierto. Pero yo tiendo a ser malpensado con MS. Así que pienso que es un anzuelo que MS le ha puesto a Novell, y Novell ha picado de alguna manera (no acierto a ver cual).
Yo coincido con Miguel, después de todo eso de que MS haya acabado pagando ... no lo veo muy claro. El que tiene los pantalones por los tobillos es Novell, MS lo único que hace es revender las "licencias". A MS le viene muy bien esto para convencer a los jefes (sí, a esos que creen en las estadísticas ;) que no son tan malos: "apoyan" el ODF, "venden" SLE[D|S], ...
Yo me refería a lo que ponía en la página esa de http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/05/28/100033867/... Over the summer Novell and Microsoft hammered out a clever, complicated - and highly controversial - deal. They knew that if Novell paid Microsoft a royalty in exchange for Microsoft's promise not to sue Novell for patent infringement, Novell would be in violation of the GPL, Stallman's farsighted free-software license. So they came up with a twist: Microsoft and Novell agreed not to sue each other's customers for patent infringement. That would be okay, because it's something that the GPL does not address. On those terms, Novell agreed to give Microsoft a percentage of all its Linux revenue through 2011 (or a minimum of $40 million). The pact also included a marketing collaboration. Microsoft agreed to pay Novell $240 million for "coupons" that it could then resell to customers (theoretically for a profit), who would, in turn, trade them in for subscriptions to Novell's Linux server software. In addition, Microsoft gave Novell another $108 million as a "balancing payment" in connection with the patent part of the deal. It might seem counterintuitive that Microsoft would end up paying millions to Novell when Microsoft is the one trying to get royalties for its patents. Microsoft's explanation is that this balancing payment was calculated as it would be in any cross-licensing deal: Novell has valuable network-computing patents that Microsoft products may infringe, and since Microsoft's products bring in so much more revenue than Novell's, Microsoft owed a balance.
Novell obtuvo, desde mi humildisimo punto de vista, dos ventajas:
- Pasta gansa
Pero esto es temporal. En el momento que MS venda todas las "licencias" ... ¿qué va a hacer Novell? ¿Qué "retailer" se va a buscar esta vez? Además, ha puesto en su contra a bastante comunidad FOSS ...
No es lo gordo la pasta por las licencias, está la pasta por las patentes que tiene Novell. - -- Saludos Carlos E.R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFGVJrntTMYHG2NR9URAljzAJ9eDg2Q878Xdd8X1A/INRQ9nBPm4ACfadQl x5BjD7YFYHYZueenSQPN2Hc= =PEAM -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----