Miguel...

Miguel...

Posted Nov 14, 2006 9:16 UTC (Tue) by massimiliano (subscriber, #3048)
In reply to: Miguel... by atai
Parent article: On Novell and Microsoft

Don't assume things you don't know.

Specifically, how do you know that Miguel played a major role in this deal?
Not that this matters much, anyway he is happy for the deal... but it is higly likely that he would have pushed for broader coverage of the "covenant" (I mean, not just Novell's customers).

Also, Miguel never said "now Mono is safe to use": he explicitly said that we still commit to shipping code that does not infringe patents, because Mono is a community project, and this policy is not changed by the Novell-Microsoft deal.
IMHO, this deal was meant to remove some FUD around Linux... and now, can you imagine Microsoft on one hand distributing Novell coupons for Suse support, and on the other hand saying that "Linux is a cancer"?
It is sad that now it is the "community" itself that is feeding the FUD...

BTW, I said "we" because I work on Mono, but of course this post represents my personal opinions and not Novell'd ones.

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