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Matthew Garrett mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org
Sun Jan 2 13:02:47 UTC 2005


On Sun, 2005-01-02 at 01:13 -0800, Keith Irwin wrote:

> (I'm not sure about being able to fork a GPL product and take it
> proprietary. I think it's illegal.)

Unless you're the copyright holder, of course.

> I don't think Novell has anything to gain using Microsoft tactics and
> everything to lose.  As the concerns expressed by the people on this
> thread amply illustrate, one of the biggest marketing advantages of
> Linux is that it doesn't allow for the kind of strong-arm, bundling,
> integration tactics Microsoft has (hopefully had) been able to use.

I know several of the ex-Ximian Novell employees personally. I trust
them not to take advantage of the free software community.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org





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