On Monday 04 December 2006 19:37, Harsh Busa wrote: > > Why? > > coz i personally think of u as blessed by RMS ( jtd fan following : > this is a complement to JTD ) :-) > > > > does this not apply to other distributions ? > > > > The Act of signing such an agreement is like a tacit > > acknowledgement of Suse having code which is in violation.
> it is not ! everytime this point was raised novell has got a press > release and some other gyan distributed saying they never > acknowledge any patent violation. That is Novell saying so. Which should count for more negative points. And is as idiotic as me taking anticipatory bail for u just incase u run over somebody in the next five years. > > But more important, the other distros did not sign a deal with M$ > > > absolving themselves and making u liable. The other distro will > > be liable first. U will ofcourse get bitten with a cease and > > desist notice in the case of other (violating) distros. Which is > > why i stick to debian. > > i m not sure if i read it correctly but i remembering read it as > "ms will not sue novell customers ever". i cud be wrong coz i donot > read fine lines in different permutations / combinations. U are wrong. M$ will not sue Novells paying customers. And will not sue non paying customers for ONE EIGHTY DAYS woohoo. I am jumping in my seat with joy. > > have you or members of the list gone thru the several announcement > and irc transcripts ? I did quite a few. All nicely moderated and asking the wrong questions. Novell employees defending the idiocity for something essentially indefensible. > > i m not a lawyer . but i think using suse is great . its amazingly > cool and novell will never screwup such big time with its > customers. They already did. Or they are shipping patented stuff - which is actually a lesser evil than signing that agreement without patented stuff. Shipping patented stuff is a business decision - we would be inconsequential yelpers passing irrelevant comments. Not shipping such stuff but still siginig the agreement means they new that they are providing M$ with a fud opportunity and are worse than M$. > > my take is novell is not evil . suse rocks and i will support it > always :) the way i see this is ms has a subtle way of stepping > into the oss market. You do have a sense of humour. Like i release ad and PR and giant hoarding, warning all that they are toast because <mumblejumbletumble>. Then send suitnboot to make sales pitch. Ha ha i like that. Very subtle and sweet. I'll remeber to tell suitnboot to plant a kiss on customer while leaving. -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
