On Thursday 02 November 2006 07:38 pm, Greg KH wrote: > I had the knowledge that it was originally told to me that they would > not be asserting them against "any open source project". I assumed > that ment "any", but in reading the links I provided you, it does not > say that, only "the open source projects that Novell ships".
And today's announcement makes it exactly clear what they're doing: <sorry for the long url; you might have to cut and paste it:> http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2050848,00.asp?kc=EWEWEMNL103006EP17A </url> > Now Novell does ship a metric butt load of projects, so almost > everything you can think of is proabably covered, but yes, I know > there are other things out there in the world that are not in the > distro (as is evident by Gentoo and Debian's larger quantity of > packages.) > I will try to find out for sure. The link I posted makes it abundantly clear that Ballmer believes he can still go after every other linux distributor; just not Suse. He wants others to close agreements with him, or (it appears) he's going to go after them. Jeff -- Jeff Lasman, Nobaloney Internet Services 1254 So Waterman Ave., Suite 50, San Bernardino, CA 92408 Our jplists address used on lists is for list email only Phone +1 909 266-9209, or see: "http://www.nobaloney.net/contactus.html";
