Software behemoth Microsoft could be one of the biggest losers from proposed license changes to the Linux operating system unveiled Wednesday. That's a possible outcome of updates to the license pushed by the FSF. The FSF wants to make mutually exclusive pacts such as the Novell-Microsoft open-source agreement a violation of the next iteration of the GNU GPL, the license that governs Linux use. "It is unfortunate that the FSF is attempting to use the GPLv3 to prevent future collaboration among industry leaders to benefit customers," said Horacio Gutierrez, Microsoft's vice president of intellectual property and licensing.
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Like EFI? or XML?
Er, what about them, exactly? EFI is a standard promoted by Intel (not only that, but in my opinion it is also far inferior in certain aspects to Open Firmware, which was already available and already a sort of standard); XML is a Web standard which Microsoft are attempting to shoehorn into a proprietary framework (as usual). "Must conform to the behaviour of obsolete proprietary Microsoft products", anyone?
However, let's talk about Samba now. How long has Samba been around? At least since Linux started to replace NT as a file server, by definition - and probably before that. Where were Microsoft's "interoperability" efforts, then?
So, given that, and the attempt to threaten anyone who distributes Linux and isn't Novell (one provision the illegality of which didn't need clarifying in GPLv3), we can see where this is heading: The one and only threat to interoperability with Microsoft is, was, and will be: Microsoft.
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It is unfortunate that the FSF is attempting to use the GPLv3 to prevent future collaboration among industry leaders to benefit customers.
Bwahahah. Microsoft? Collaborate? Notwithstanding the fact that he probably meant to say "cooperation" ("collaboration" having negative connotations), considering the source that is the funniest statement I have read in quite a while.