On Monday 14 May 2007 19:09, S Glasoe wrote:
> And this has what to do with a technical issue with openSUSE Linux?
If you cared a whit about the technical issues with Novell openSUSE
(let
alone SLED, SLES) you wouldn't have to ask your question. But since you ask,
if M$ is correct (and they're probably BALLED FACED LIARS) then IP will spell
game-over for Linux distributors like Novell, and there won't be any
discussion to be had for openSUSE... end of story.
On the other hand (and far more likely) if Micro$oft execs are in fact
BALLED
FACED LIARS then these notes should be of immense interest to every technical
person on this list... new and old alike... because being educated about this
issue is the first step in fighting it. Patent numbers spell game-over for
Linux... on the other hand FUD spells doom only as long as folks do not
DISCUSS it in their main open forums... its critical.
Novell stupidly played into the M$ scheme and took their bait...
against all
sound advice... neither here nor there at this point... but we cannot allow
this to happen again... and the way to prevent it is to discuss it copiously.
And another thing...
... something all commercial and hobby rocket engineers should be
thinking
about in the near future... Gnu/Linux must be preserved, packaged, and
prepared for random distribution. M$ might take down Redhat, or Novell, (as
a central target which they can put clearly in their sights) but they aren't
even going to be able to target the larger community. Ubuntu is a fantastic
upstart in this direction. But there have to be more... many more... forks
and forks... from every direction. It must spread like dandy-lion seeds
across the lush green fields of IP nonsense. If Micro$oft believes they can
patent a mathematical algorithm (all software, most of which they stole
themselves from Xerox and IBM) then the free software movement must prove
them wrong... forever. Eben Moglen is correct... the time is come and the
time is now... there is going to be a clarion call for battle on the fields
of patent law, relevant to every system engineer, or hacker, who wields the
blade of the software art or ever called themselves "programmer".
Don't Tread On Me
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M Harris <><
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