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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Given that developing software is my job and most of my life time is spent at my job, yes, software is a pretty important part of my life.
Therefore, anything that will make my day-to-day life at work harder (for instance, stupid corporate politics that will shove awfum microsoft products down my throat for some more years) is something that pisses me off.
People who don't care about software are the people who let microsoft take control of the software industry, and they are the people who make my day to day life harder as a software developer.
But it's probably easy to just dismiss software as unimportant when it's not part of your job and you don't have to deal with it everyday.