On Wednesday 23 May 2007 12:13, Kartik Mistry wrote: > On 5/23/07, jtd wrote, > > > Did you know that Novell signed a crooked deal with M$ to sue > > Linux users who had not paid Novell to use linux ?. Oh u did not. > > How could you with your head buried in the sand. > > Ofcourse. I know it very well. > > My head is always up and ready to face any real storm.. rather > created by FUDs from various sources.
My reply was precisely because there wasnt any fud at all in DJ's mail. It's Novell which is trying to employ - not the individual contributors. Nor did DJ's mail say anything negative about any individual contribution. All the FUD is from Novell with all sorts of ridiculous statements and clarifications from the friend of a friend of the granny of the employee in the pantry about how wonderful this deal was for the whole universe. But not one single statement about redistribution of the distro on the website or what patents exactly were being violated. For those who dont know if Novell believes that there are patent violations (or as the pantry guys friends said that Novell had to get hold of M$office specs to ensure interoperability ) and hence had to sign a deal, you as an employ will be severely curtailed from doing work in the same areas that the agreement covers. So it's going to be a major millstone around your neck. Far from being a nice place to start, you would actually be shackling yourself. So goodbye to innocence and warm fuzzy feelings for all the great contributions from Novell. -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
