On Thursday 07 December 2006 05:27, Darryl Gregorash wrote: > > It's just that Novell has not realized this yet and is giving > > MS precisely what it wants. Let me quote PJ: > > > > 1. to try to prove that the GPL is not legally binding and so > > can be violated in order to make some money, honey. > > I thought all previous musings from Groklaw were that the GPL *is* > legally binding, and that Novell is intentionally violating it. Nice > try, then, to change horses and try to assert the opposite.
Umm, PJ is still saying GPL is binding. She's just trying to point out Novell does not feel that way. > > 2. Another goal was to cast a legal cloud over Linux, so in the > > enterprise, PHBs would be afraid to employ it for fear of > > legal consequences of possibly violating SCO's "IP". > > SCO has been hit a mortal blow: Virtually their entire case has been > thrown out by the presiding judge, and they have yet to demonstrate a > single line of code that supports their claims. Anyone believing that > the community of end users is oblivious to these developments is on > drugs so cheap that I don't even want any. Yep. So MS is looking for new desperate company to provide any backing for it's FUD. Novell is giving them that, and I don't think this is what Novell intended. However, can't see them that dumb either that they would not have seen what's coming. > > 3. And also there was the apparent goal of forcing Linux to cost > > something > > There is a recent decision by a US federal court (SCOTUS itself??) that > there is no legal obligation to charge anything for one's work. This was > in response to a claim that a selling cost of zero hindered free trade > by attempting to create a monopoly. In short, the court found that US > anti-trust legislation does not require one to sell one's product, so > the GPL is quite safe on these grounds. You missed the point again. You, as a Novell customer, are paying to MS from now on [for something that does not exist, ie. FUD]. Is that what you wanted? -- // Janne -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
