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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1) ODF = Encumbered by Sun Patents
2) PDF = Patented by Adobe
3) OpenXML = Encumbered by Microsoft patents
Which of the above is "open" and which one is EVIL?
Any guesses?
Microsoft has actually a covenant for their Office XML specification:
http://www.microsoft.com/office/xml/covenant.mspx