On Saturday 18 November 2006 03:13, M. Fioretti wrote:
Indeed, apart from being an entirely pointless exercise as the fork would be just as illegal to distribute as the original, it would also never happen.
Really? Never? Go look at how many linux distros have sprung up from Debian recently. Why are we running xorg instead of Xfree?
Because XFree was developed, packaged and maintained in a way that pissed a lot of developers and distro packagers off. That's common knowledge, and this (the patents parts of the Novell-MS deal) an entirely different issue. You keep confusing copyright with patents, see my other message.
I'm not confusing anything Marco, I'm simply pointing out that the reasons for forks in the past have been MUCH LESS than the MS/Novell situation. I think the patents issue is a red herring, until and unless something, ANYTHING, can be shown to infringe. Its not germane to the discussion about people wanting to fork. <fire retardant> I'm not suggesting a fork, and not in favor of one, I simply am expressing the opinion that forks happen all the time, sometimes for very little reason, and there is no reason to think it unthinkable. > -- _____________________________________ John Andersen