-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Goksin Akdeniz wrote: >> Neither do we, neither does Novell. >> > I suppose it is the case. On the contrary such agreements only hurts
You "suppose" ? I mean, please turn your brains on for a few seconds. Novell's business is - - Linux - - identity products Why on earth would Novell want to hurt FOSS development ? > FLOSS/FOSS. The community has a tradion backing to UNIX days which in short > can be expressed with the term "rebellion". Such characteristic of a > tradition leads to bashing of companies or anything like M$-Novell agreement. Heh. So, how much of a rebellion is - - Sun's Solaris (Sun has a somewhat similar agreement with MS since April) - - IBM's AIX (wow, rebellion) - - HP's HPUX (HP is one of the biggest MS sellers and partners in town) ? > M$ can not sue Novell for any patent infringement as long as the code is > developed free of M$. In fact in a software company only some can view the > all sourcecode not all employees. No, as long as the code is free from patent infringements. Please just read - - the FAQs: * http://www.novell.com/linux/microsoft/faq.html * http://www.novell.com/linux/microsoft/faq_opensource.html - - what AJ has to say about it: http://andreasjaeger.blogspot.com/2006/11/opensuse-and-microsoft.html (especially about SUSE's QA process against patent infringements) > So a deal such as Novell-M$ does not make sense. In the case of SCO, m$ > supported SCO and lawsuit between IBM and SCO is not settled yet. Even for > the Wordperfect for between Novell and M$. Get real. Anything that makes money and more sales makes sense for Novell, as for any business. If Novell goes bankrupt, how much good is it for (open)SUSE ? And how much good is it for FOSS ? Remember Novell is a big sponsor of many FOSS projects. > Novell and M$ declares not to sue each other but rest is still is not clear. No, that is wrong. MS guarantees not to sue Novell *customers* MS can still sue Novell and Novell can still sue MS. Geez, just *read* the stuff. cheers - -- -o) Pascal Bleser http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/ /\\ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _\_v The more things change, the more they stay insane. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFWzqFr3NMWliFcXcRAubBAKCI5jOOooSX2ObB8gebmS/oUIhHGgCfRKCU jqaze7jQKcGZZkp40bR8Ee8= =1FYW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
