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[19]: More things change, the more they stay the same
by ichi on Mon 9th Jul 2007 16:32
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RE[20]: More things change, the more they stay the same
by sappyvcv on Mon 9th Jul 2007 17:48
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RE[19]: More things change, the more they stay the same
by lemur2 on Tue 10th Jul 2007 00:22
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Microsoft is desperate to try to find a way divide the FOSS community and to find a way to make FOSS users liable for a license fee for Linux payable to Microsoft. Microsoft are dead keen to utterly ban all of the four freedoms.
All the while Microsoft have been consistently throwing every obstacle in the way of FOSS, trying to hinder and destroy FOSS, trying to slow its adoption through attempts to smear its name, wriiting letters to congress calling FOSS "communist", funding bogus think tanks calling FOSS "derived from UNIX", and trying legal lobbying to get it banned, and mounting third-party lawsuits to try to throw a spanner in the works.
Microsoft offer no product for FOSS, they refuse to inter-operate with FOSS, they avoid open formats like the plague and they try their best to prevent wide adoption of any open format, and they try to insist that their closed formats be the standard and that everyone owes them money to use said formats.
All the while Microsoft have been consistently throwing every obstacle in the way of FOSS, trying to hinder and destroy FOSS, trying to slow its adoption through attempts to smear its name, wriiting letters to congress calling FOSS "communist", funding bogus think tanks calling FOSS "derived from UNIX", and trying legal lobbying to get it banned, and mounting third-party lawsuits to try to throw a spanner in the works.
Microsoft offer no product for FOSS, they refuse to inter-operate with FOSS, they avoid open formats like the plague and they try their best to prevent wide adoption of any open format, and they try to insist that their closed formats be the standard and that everyone owes them money to use said formats.
"That's pretty petty of the FSF."
Petty? Petty!!!!!????
Shakes head in bewilderment.
Sigh!
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Microsoft is not limiting the "four freedoms" with their vouchers. RMS simply wants to control Microsoft's actions any way possible.
Are you admitting that the license is a purposeful retaliation to Microsofts past actions, trying to attack them back?
That's pretty petty of the FSF.