On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 10:12:09PM +0100, Theo v. Werkhoven wrote: > The "deal" itself is empty as far as I can see from the link below, > the OSS community as a whole doesn't gain anything from it, and > neither do SUSE users. The only ones that gain are the Novell > bank-acount and lawyers from MS.
So? I have no problem with not gaining anything. I did not sign anything, so why would I, as a member of the OSS comunity, gain anything with a deal between two parties? It is their deal/ > The bit that said nobody is really protected from patent suets > anyway was clevery hit in the agreement don't you think? No, I don't think that. I just don't see anything different, even if they still are allowed to sue eachother over patents. Read: _still_ > But they do have leveraged over other Linx distro's, now they've > hooked one player. I do not see it as being 'hooked'. If Microsoft would have wanted patents to enter just to destroy Linux, there are much easier ways. Say that I am a undercover M$ person. I get some code from Microsoft. I trow it in the kernel and then after a year or so. I have a non-sue contract with them, so I do not have to worry. I don't need to get a payment for 318 million. I would do it for half the money. > Divide and conquer, maybe you've heard of it. Yes, I have heard of it and it is happening by the OSS community itself. This is due to the fact that people are (rightly or wrongly) against Microsoft. > > Either? I have not spend any money on them ever. The latest I spend money > > was SuSE 9.1 and I am angry with myself for buying so many versions. Now I > > just download the stuff > > Well, I have have at least 6 boxes here, and every penny spent on > SUSE has been well worth it; *sofar*. I would say that I spend too much on SUSE. The reason being that I followed the trail fo updating when a new version came out. Now I go more along the way of "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." I went from 9.1 to 10.0. No need to buy 9.2 or 9.3. I have the 10.1 as a present (Thanks Novell) > I remain sceptical, until proven otherwise. That has nothing to do > with being anti-Microsoft, only with seeing that MS has no interest > in making Linux better, so they're after something else. I just > don't know what yet. I will remain sceptical as always. There has nothing changed that made me more or less sceptical of what Microsoft is doing. Why would I or anybody else suddenly become less sceptical? Or more sceptical for that matter. houghi -- To have a nice mailinglist experience, follow the guidelines below: > Please do not toppost. Please turn off HTML > Read http://en.opensuse.org/Opensuse_mailing_list_netiquette > Read http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
