On Monday May 14 2007 8:39:11 pm M Harris wrote: > 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.
Well that'd be 'bald faced liars' meaning clean-shaven, no mask and telling lies with a straight face without any shame. So what's changed since Linus released Linux in 1991 was it? Same old, same old. Microsoft has been saying this since day 2 of Linux. Microsoft has been spreading FUD about something since day one of their operations. > ... 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". I call BULLSHIT! Forking really helped commercial UNIX fight off the Microsoft menace now didn't it? You've really bit into the new SCO-bait haven't you? Without specifying anything, Microsoft is trying to prove Linux infringes something. Now you are actively supporting Microsoft's position by ranting and raving here exactly what they want you to be ranting and raving about. If you just keep spreading the Linux goodness like you did after that wonderful Vista/Powerpoint presentation then Linux will survive whatever Microsoft can possibly throw at it. > Don't Tread On Me I won't if you won't. Please quit dumping corporate marketing FUD into a technical list. This is the openSUSE list where anyone can come to get help with their openSUSE/SLES/SLED technical issues and get redirected to a more appropriate list if needed. > Kind regards, > > M Harris <>< -- Stan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
