Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 6th Jul 2007 11:05 UTC, submitted by WillM
Microsoft cleared the air July 5 on its obligations to GNU General Public License Version 3 support, declaring it will not provide support or updates for GPLv3 under the deal it penned in November with Novell to administer certificates for the Linux distribution. Microsoft also said July 5 that its agreement with Novell, as well as those with Linux rivals Xandros and Linspire, were unaffected by the release June 29 of GPLv3 by the Free Software Foundation.
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Sounds like your just a clueless newbie programmer to me who somehow feels that your visual basic job is threatened by open source.
Would be funny if it wasn't sad. I won't bother you by telling what I do for living. U just have no clue and telling that wouldn't change your view.
You have no idea what your talking about. Most "key" figures in the open source world make their whole living doing something related to open source. Most are employed by companies to represent them in their open source projects. 70% of the Linux kernel developers work for Redhat, IBM, Novell, and others.
Working to something "related" to open-source is not like make you living out of open-source projects. Do you actually know them? The ones where you open-source your code, ask for donations and, after a few months, shut your doors because you ran out of funds.
I agree: working for someone who pays you every single month is much easier than making your living out of your open-source project. And, if you're very sly, you can make some money by telling people to do what you don't want to do. Clever (from them).
You look like one of those Marx wanted to give a conscience to but he obiouvsly failed since you are happy to work for free (and let other blablas make money out of your work...).
Edited 2007-07-06 13:55