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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2005-09-10
And you shouldn't be modded up for ridiculing someone you don't know anything about. What you just did fits into the "personal attacks" category btw.
Because:
a) lots of people are suspicios about this move. They have a bad feeling (warning: emotion!) about this partnership.
b) some people express this bad feeling by switching to another distro.This is their own way of expressing their dismay.
Now calling their posts zealous grandstanding and reactionist, and what's more, campaigning against others who mod him up because they feel the same way is just... well ridiculous.
Edited 2006-11-03 20:34