linux-kernel - Re: Faustian Pact between Novell and Microsoft

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Date:	Tue, 7 Nov 2006 22:57:49 +0100
From:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:	"Jeff V. Merkey" <jmerkey@...fmountaingroup.com>
Cc:	Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@...mix.at>, Petr Baudis <pasky@...e.cz>,
	Linux kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Faustian Pact between Novell and Microsoft

Hi!

> >>>This is a watershed moment for Linux. It fundamentally changes the
> >>>rules of the game. We're really excited about this deal, and we hope
> >>>you are too.
> >>>  
> >>>(from http://www.novell.com/linux/microsoft/openletter.html) only make
> >>>it worse, but acquisition? I'd hope not even mickey$oft has enough
> >>>cash for _that_.
> >>
> >>And the first point in the list is "patents" ....

> >I can see the lights are coming on now for some folks now.

> <snip>
> 
> /"Microsoft made it clear that only SUSE users and developers, as well 
> as unsalaried Linux developers, are protected. 'Let me be clear about 
> one thing, we don't license our intellectual property to Linux because 
> of the way Linux licensing GPL framework works, that's not really a 
> possibility,' said Microsoft chief executive, Steve Ballmer. 'Novell is 
> actually just a proxy for its customers, and it's only for its 
> customers,' he added. 'This does not apply to any forms of Linux other 
> than Novell's SUSE Linux. And if people want to have peace and 
> interoperability, they'll look at Novell's SUSE Linux. If they make 
> other choices, they have all of the compliance and intellectual property 
> issues that are associated with that.'"
> 
> </snip>
> 
> And those lights are bright indeed ....

Would you care to elaborate? All sorts of red lights are "on" here
from friday, some of them flashing...

									Pavel
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