Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 3rd Nov 2006 16:08 UTC, submitted by twickline
Of course the net is buzzing with reactions to the Novell-Microsoft agreement of yesterday. Bruce Perens is very negative about it all: "What aren't they telling you? First, you can be sure that Microsoft's not out to help a competitor. This announcement paves the way for Microsoft to implement significant control over commercial customer's use of Free Software. And it has significant negative implications for Open Source in general." Eben Moglen of the FSF says about the possible GPL issues: "If you make an agreement which requires you to pay a royalty to anybody for the right to distribute GPL software, you may not distribute it under the GPL."
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Heh, an anti-zealot zealot
- zealotry is always dramatic, ditching a linux distro because you don't like what they do - well, there are hundreds of linux distroes plus there is FreeBSD.
He simply became suspicious of Novell, and decided to make a point - is that wrong, or as you say, zealotry? You also forget that's one of the best things about Free Software - that actually he can ditch his discs without much ado. Bye Novell, welcome Archlinux (if I may make a recommendation
There are always peeps who think that it is soo cool to call others zealots, just because the ideals of Free Software actually mean something for them. This is boring, really. If you cannot see outside the pragmatical/technical box, that's fine, but don't ridicule others because they can.