suse, novel and patents

[Michael Davies]

On 11/21/06, Shaun Branden <shaun at pcuse.com> wrote:
> Why are there no posts about Novel/ Suse and the MS deal?
>
> It seems to me that more Linux users are just interested in the free
> convenient software that someone else has made, rather than a community
> actually making a stand and working together to make something.

Ok, I'll take the bait.

The FSF wants to shutrdown the MS/Novell deal -
http://go.theregister.com/feed/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/11/20/eben_moglen_on_microsoft_novell/

Microsoft start their patent claims against non-Novell Linux users -
http://go.theregister.com/feed/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/11/20/microsoft_claims_linux_code/

Someone claims Novell has copied Microsoft VBA code directly into OOo
- http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/11/08/1726205

Novell plan on holding an IRC meeting on Thursday/Friday to calm the
OSS community - http://lwn.net/Articles/210260/rss

Samba tells Novell to get stuffed -
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20061112171106871

Novell tells Samba that their mind is made up, sorry -
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20061119163021490

Either the sky is falling (ie. the position of most people here) or
you should go and buy a Mac (ie the Mark Newton position)

:-)

The biggest question in my mind - will the MS/Novell
sell-my-soul-to-the-devil deal change the opinion of Linus and the
kernel hackers into adopting GPLv3 for the Linux kernel?
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