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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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RE: well Microsoft..

by trenchsol on Fri 6th Jul 2007 14:37 UTC in reply to "well Microsoft.."

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2006-12-07

Well, maybe we will see nice little showdown in court. Academic FSF lawyers against real corporate lawyers from Microsoft and Novell. Guess who is going to win....it will be a bloodshed, too ugly to watch.

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RE[2]: well Microsoft..

by r_a_trip on Fri 6th Jul 2007 16:02 in reply to "RE: well Microsoft.."

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2005-07-06

Don't underestimate the FSF. The GPlv2 has stood the test of time. GPLv3 was vetted for over a year and seems pretty ironclad.

Since MS didn't run roughshod over GPLv2 and GPLv3 is a tweaked version of v2, I wonder who would leave the courtroom all bashed up...

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RE[3]: well Microsoft..

by trenchsol on Fri 6th Jul 2007 19:41 in reply to "RE[2]: well Microsoft.."

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Microsoft had no reason to go to court because of GPL, yet. They still have no reason, but FSF could be crazy enough to sue them.

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