On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 15:24 -0700, Andrew Lentvorski wrote: > Paul Allen wrote: > > How many people thought M$ would never do this? > > Oh, please, this was obvious once Microsoft hired the guy from IBM whose > primary raison d'etre was patent shakedowns. > > I'm amazed it took this long. > > Probably the GPLv3 forced the issue. If Microsoft doesn't act before > that gets entrenched, their shakedowns won't work. > > In fact, it's not already clear whether it is too late. Quoting Groklaw: > http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070513234519615 > > > I hope everyone out there understands now the importance of GPLv3. > > Read the article and you'll see that even Microsoft acknowledges that > > it can't use the Novell deal as a template, as it wished, for other > > such deals, because of GPLv3. Thank you, Eben Moglen. >
I didn't write this last bit. PGA -- Paul G. Allen BSIT/SE Owner/Sr. Engineer Random Logic Consulting www.randomlogic.com -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
