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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[2]: cool

by walterbyrd on Thu 9th Nov 2006 21:08 UTC in reply to "RE: cool"

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2005-12-31

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Novell do not believe Linux infringes MS patents . . .
Is it really that difficult to understand?
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Yes. Why is novell interested in an agreement not to be sued for patent violations, if novell doesn't believe there are patent violations?

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RE[3]: cool

by renox on Fri 10th Nov 2006 10:16 in reply to "RE[2]: cool"

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2005-07-06

Because what matters is not what Novell believes but what the customers believe.
Telling your customers that 'with us you're 100% safe, with our competitors we believe you're safe too but we don't know for sure' seems to be a good sell pitch.

FUD sell. But I wonder why so many people are so offended by it?
It's not like Novell was the only one to use FUD against its competitors..

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RE[4]: cool

by twenex on Fri 10th Nov 2006 12:28 in reply to "RE[3]: cool"

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2006-04-21

Probably because in this case, it's what Ballmer described as "high rhetoric". MS has always used "high rhetoric" ("linux is a cancer", etc.) but now he is bullshitting people into thinking they have stopped, which since they haven't is actually twice as bad.

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