Novell Sells Out

[Corey Burger]

On 11/3/06, Russell McOrmond <russell at flora.ca> wrote:
> rbil wrote:
> > http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20061102175508403
> >
> > What does this mean to the whole open source/gpl community?
>
>    I believe it is the beginning of some very nasty problems for the
> FLOSS community that will make the SCO issue seem insignificant by
> comparison.
>
>    I've written some thoughts for the CLUE list to try to get some
> feedback. http://www.cluecan.ca/pipermail/discuss/2006-November/date.html
>
>
>    If you don't think this is going to massively harm the community,
> just check out:
>
> http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2050848,00.asp
>      "I suspect that [customers] will take that issue up with their
>      distributor," Ballmer said. Or if customers are considering doing a
>      direct download of a non-SUSE Linux version, "they'll think twice
>      about that," he said.
>
>
>    An Ubuntu question:  Does Cannonical offer a "Statement of Position
> and Our Promise on Software Patents" similar to what RedHat does?
> http://www.redhat.com/legal/patent_policy.html

Canonical, afaik, owns no patents. But it has not. Also remember that
Red Hat has literally no closed-source software, as where as Canonical
and Novell have a bunch.

Corey