into electronic streams flowing thru the cosmos On Friday 03 November 2006 6:59 pm, M Harris wrote:
On Friday 03 November 2006 15:49, Darryl Gregorash wrote:
So, please enlighten me in case I have made any error here:
Ok..
At this point in time M$ has not one word to say ... and that I believe is the entire point of your entire previous post... and you're missing the issue.
The issue is the *future* of Novell-Mickey-Office-Linux... and the impact the *cross licensing* in the *future* will have upon Suse, the Linux community, and the open source movement in general.
If Novell teams up with M$ then Suse in the *future* will no longer have the trust of the open community. Do you honestly believe that Suse will honor the GPL with M$ in their pocket? Well, if I were you (cause it won't be me) when you load Suse 10.2 I would recommend that you read the license agreement *very* carefully... cause I'm willing to bet that it changes dramatically... and I am also willing to bet that M$ lawyers are going to help write it. Bye bye Suse.
On the other hand... Ubuntu is safe... for the moment. I thought I could trust Novell. I was apparently quite mistaken about that... otherwise, I think I know what I'm talking about here.
I'm confused, how is Novell going to have MS in "their pocket"? In any event, why would they *not* honour the GPL? Those two things are not mutually exclusive. If they did that would be a good thing, no? Or are you trying to say that Novell never was an Open Source company and only bought one so they could somehow destroy Open Source? That on current evidence seems a real reach.. Besides, don't they still owe a debt to IBM; who are unlikely to be chuffed at them falling under the MS complete evil empire sway? -- j This current flows between us that will not be denied You draw me in towards you like the moon pulls at the tide May no shadow ever fall that will make me have to call you someone I used to love