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Novell's press release on partnership with MicrosoftNovell's press release on partnership with MicrosoftPosted Nov 3, 2006 12:46 UTC (Fri) by nhippi (subscriber, #34640)Parent article: Novell's press release on partnership with Microsoft
I think the bottom line is: If this means Novell gets more money to develop free software, this is only a good thing for everyone.
Whether the "if" is true, will only be found out in future. The "patent cooperation agreement" is probably a zero-sum game, but the "coupon" deal could expose (Novell) Linux to many people who would have not met Linux elsewhere.
All the blah-blah about patents and non-suing is irrelevant. Risk of being sued existed before and will exist in future, they are just a bit more public now and excluded some people from suing who wouldn't get sued anyway.
People who recognize FUD will keep choosing whatever distribution they want and the nervous ones can choose SUSE and feel safe.
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Novell's press release on partnership with Microsoft Posted Nov 4, 2006 3:37 UTC (Sat) by jonabbey (subscriber, #2736) [Link] No. This agreement doesn't help Novell develop free software in the slightest. All Novell is doing is agreeing to pay protection to Microsoft so that terrible things don't happen to their paying customers. That's all.
If there were anything to do with free software, here, their customers could take that software, modify it, improve it, fork it, and redistribute it. But this agreement carries the Novell-endorsed implicit threat that Bad Things Might Happen if anyone were to have the temerity to actually do such an awful thing.
/me spits on the ground in front of Novell headquarters.
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