-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Goksin Akdeniz wrote:
Neither do we, neither does Novell.
I suppose it is the case. On the contrary such agreements only hurts
You "suppose" ? I mean, please turn your brains on for a few seconds. Novell's business is - - Linux - - identity products Why on earth would Novell want to hurt FOSS development ?
FLOSS/FOSS. The community has a tradion backing to UNIX days which in short can be expressed with the term "rebellion". Such characteristic of a tradition leads to bashing of companies or anything like M$-Novell agreement.
Heh. So, how much of a rebellion is - - Sun's Solaris (Sun has a somewhat similar agreement with MS since April) - - IBM's AIX (wow, rebellion) - - HP's HPUX (HP is one of the biggest MS sellers and partners in town) ?
M$ can not sue Novell for any patent infringement as long as the code is developed free of M$. In fact in a software company only some can view the all sourcecode not all employees.
No, as long as the code is free from patent infringements. Please just read - - the FAQs: * http://www.novell.com/linux/microsoft/faq.html * http://www.novell.com/linux/microsoft/faq_opensource.html - - what AJ has to say about it: http://andreasjaeger.blogspot.com/2006/11/opensuse-and-microsoft.html (especially about SUSE's QA process against patent infringements)
So a deal such as Novell-M$ does not make sense. In the case of SCO, m$ supported SCO and lawsuit between IBM and SCO is not settled yet. Even for the Wordperfect for between Novell and M$.
Get real. Anything that makes money and more sales makes sense for Novell, as for any business. If Novell goes bankrupt, how much good is it for (open)SUSE ? And how much good is it for FOSS ? Remember Novell is a big sponsor of many FOSS projects.
Novell and M$ declares not to sue each other but rest is still is not clear.
No, that is wrong.
MS guarantees not to sue Novell *customers*
MS can still sue Novell and Novell can still sue MS.
Geez, just *read* the stuff.
cheers
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