Qua, 2007-06-06 às 18:50 +0200, Alexander Terekhov escreveu: > More from Carmony: > > http://forum.freespire.org/showpost.php?p=63026&postcount=35 > > ------ > We have customers who have switched from Linspire to Novell because > Novell offers patent protection with Microsoft. The FSF has been > extremely vocal about v3 limiting these types of deals. I know for a > fact that some enterprise customers and OEMs want the MS patent > protection. Given this demand, I can see why Novell and Xandros have > decided to offer it. The FSF has said they are trying to stop these type > of deals from happening. I have no problem with that, they have every > right to do that. The point of my Linspire Letter is JUST BE AWARE of > the potential consequences. If companies are dropping Linspire and going > with Novell (and now Xandros) for the MS patents, if that option is > completely shut down, then where will they go? Back to using Windows, > which is the "unintended consequence."
Since they are moving away for non-sequitor reasons, they clearly show how fooled they have been by scare-tactics. If they are so foolish, they're not helping anyone by staying with Free Software, good riddance. Rui -- + No matter how much you do, you never do enough -- unknown + Whatever you do will be insignificant, | but it is very important that you do it -- Gandhi + So let's do it...?
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