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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Member since:2006-08-08
How could a deal with Microsoft bring Linux into the mainstream? There is no way that Microsoft is doing this alliance to benefit Linux and improve it's use.
MS has been fighting linux for the past decade!! I can see the MS is opening up more to it's presence and learning to work with it, but never would I say that MS will help Linux
Member since:2005-09-10
And what you say is naivity - do you think that Microsoft would help Novell "bring Linux into the mainstream"? Both Perens and Moglen smell a rat - and rightfully so. History of MS proves that they never ever acted in anyone's interest, save their own - and their historical "partners" almost always lost in the end.
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2006-01-14
That's ridiculous.
As long as Novell doesn't violate the GPL, which I'm sure they won't. And, they don't pick up Microsoft's bad habits. It should help bring Linux into the mainstream.
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Edited 2006-11-03 16:37