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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 9th Nov 2006 17:07 UTC, submitted by deanlinkous

Novell has partnered with the Software Freedom Law Center to ensure that its partnership with Microsoft does not violate any terms of the General Public Licence. "The SFLC has been offered cooperation by Novell sufficient to permit a confidential audit to determine whether the licence provisions of the GPL have been complied with," SFLC chairman Eben Moglen told vnunet.com.

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RE: Damage Control

by twenex on Thu 9th Nov 2006 17:59 UTC in reply to "Damage Control"

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2006-04-21

The most interesting part is that Microsoft doesn't appear to be doing any damage control at all.

I guess they just don't care. I'm sure they will survive if they don't have the FOSS community onside - they have already done that all these years, after all - but the fact that they don't, and aren't making any attempt to get it onside, is telling. My bet is this is their end-run around Linux. Linux stands or falls depending on what happens in the next five years at Microsoft.

And more worryingly, in the last week I haven't seen anything to suggest that the openSUSE people are doing damage control, either. They seem to be lying down and taking it.

Edited 2006-11-09 18:10

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RE[2]: Damage Control

by Mitarai on Thu 9th Nov 2006 18:11 in reply to "RE: Damage Control"

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2005-07-28

Is more like:

"The community" - I hate you MS, you are evil.

MicroSoft - It's allrigth, I can live with that.

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RE[3]: Damage Control

by twenex on Thu 9th Nov 2006 18:18 in reply to "RE[2]: Damage Control"

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2006-04-21

No, it's more like:

Microsoft: We're announcing a deal to distribute Linux.

Community: Whoa, great! But hang on, what's the details?

Microsoft: >Gives suspiciously vague details on seemingly oddly one-sided agreement<

Community: Ah, typical.

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How, exactly, will Linux fall?

by rcsteiner on Mon 13th Nov 2006 16:13 in reply to "RE: Damage Control"

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2005-07-12

Linux is a collection of software which is driven by, written by, and supported by the community, and most of the folks in that community don't really care for the most part what Microsoft does either except in terms of protocol/filesystem/document compatibility.

I don't use Linux myself because I hate Microsoft, but more because it does things I can't do with MS products on my existing hardware, and it does them at a lower cost than Windows would if it could.

Edited 2006-11-13 16:16

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