Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 29th Nov 2006 22:50 UTC, submitted by anonymous
It got little notice at the time, but Richard Stallman, the leader of the FSF, said at the fifth international GPLv3 conference in Tokyo on Nov. 21 that the Novell/Microsoft patent agreement is not in violation of the GPL version 2. Stallman said, according to a transcript published by the FSF Europe, "What has happened is, Microsoft has not given Novell a patent license, and thus, section 7 of GPL version 2 does not come into play. Instead, Microsoft offered a patent license that is rather limited to Novell's customers alone."
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2006-11-26
Then why bother with Gnu/Linux (assuming this is GNU/Linux you are referring to) at all? Why not get BSD and use that as the base for an OS? It's less restrictive which is more attractive to those who don't mind restricting other people's freedoms.