On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 01:38:55PM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > On Tue, 29 Jul 2008, M. Fioretti wrote: >> as far as I'm concerned, you're really preaching to the choir here :-) >> http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9594#mpart8 > > I wasn't aware of that article. > > Thank you for that. > > One thing of particular concern in that article, and it makes Novell > somewhat disreputable, is the part: > > "A couple of months ago, Microsoft and another software company, Novell, > signed a technical cooperation agreement. A part of this agreement may > turn out as highly dangerous for almost all citizens, but it is not the > one that the majority of critics addressed. > > With this agreement, Microsoft commits not to sue, for patent > infringement and other intellectual property violations, the users of > the specific version of Linux packaged and distributed by Novell." > Now, and what's the difference to this: http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/news/interview/0,289202,sid39_gci1007248,00.html ?
(more general background here: http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Windows/Microsoft-Sun-Reach-Settlement/ ) Cheers, -- Thorsten --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
