
"Often cast as the peacemaker in free software disputes,
Bruce Perens is on the warpath. When we caught up with him, he wasn't in a mood to be charitable to Novell. On Friday the Utah company, which markets the SuSE Linux distribution, revealed that it was entering into a partnership with Microsoft. Redmond would pay Novell an undisclosed sum in return for Novell recognizing Microsoft's intellectual property claims. Novell received a 'Covenant' promising that it wouldn't be sued by Microsoft.
"It's a case of 'Damn the people who write the software'", he told us.
"Novell is in a desperate position - it has a smaller share of the market than Debian,"" he told The Register.
Update: Novell responds to community's questions:
here,
here and
here.
Update 2: Havoc Pennington's
take.
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edit - oops almost forgot to mod you down for being off topic.
You mean you modded down the items below:
You cultist are pathetically thin skinned.
You rage about Microsoft. You lie about Microsoft. Its pathetic. And if someone points out your lies - they are a troll.
If someone says something nice about Microsoft - they are a troll.
The truth is the cultists are the trolls. They are obnoxious, hate mongers who have a tiny, tiny presence on the desktops of the world ... but they act like they are on a mission from god.
They also have no sense of humor. They don't like opposition of any kind. And for the most part they are appallingly igorant about Microsoft software.
I tried polite and factual. I was modded down maliciously. No wonder you think every post of mine is annoying. Almost all are modded down, no matter how well referenced - so you and the cult don't have to read them.