On Sat November 1 2008 7:59:31 pm Larry Stotler wrote:
On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 7:26 PM, Richard
wrote: This was in the November 2008 copy of Linux Journel and I had never seen such an article previously. I had seen threads in this newslist a couple of years ago but never in a published mag before. I am not proclaiming the sky is falling or anything like it, but am quite curious if there is anything to the article that one should take seriously. Given the '>deal' with MS was about 2 years ago, we would still have 3 years of 'safety', but if there is anything to the article, you don't want to wait until the lawyers start sending out their little notices either. I personally hope Novell was/is smart enough to trump any 'Aces' that M$ might think it has with this deal. SuSE certainly is my choice of OS.
I know several people who swore off SuSE when that happened, and AFAIK, they have all migrated back.
Personally, I could care less. Even IF M$ is able to sue, they can never remove linux from those of us who use it and don't care about all that software patent nonsense. If nothing else, I will use it or one of the BSDs and NOT WinDoZe, so they wouldn't lose anything anyway.
Just my 2 cents..... Larry, I can assure you that no matter what, M$ will never ever get a penny from me for *any* of their crappola. They will find suing me is like trying to squeeze water out of a desert rock that has been baked in a 1000 degree furnace for a month of sundays. I just don't want Novell to be 'drug' under by M$ like so many other firms have been in the past.
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