Novell's press release on partnership with Microsoft

Novell's press release on partnership with Microsoft

Posted Nov 4, 2006 3:37 UTC (Sat) by jonabbey (subscriber, #2736)
In reply to: Novell's press release on partnership with Microsoft by nhippi
Parent article: Novell's press release on partnership with Microsoft

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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