This is Gnome/Mono speaking, not SUSE [LWN.net]

This is Gnome/Mono speaking, not SUSE

Posted Nov 28, 2006 8:41 UTC (Tue) by niner (subscriber, #26151)
In reply to: This is Gnome/Mono speaking, not SUSE by k8to
Parent article: Novell's IRC session on the Microsoft deal

Maybe they just didn't have time to attend, or just didn't want to. It is after all a very uninteresting topic for an engineer.

And don't forget: in reality it is a purely American/Japanese topic, as Microsoft could not inforce any software patents in Europe.

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This is Gnome/Mono speaking, not SUSE

Posted Nov 28, 2006 9:12 UTC (Tue) by vblum (guest, #1151) [Link]

Errr ... in what world would those SUSE developers live? This Novell-MS agreement and its fallout would seem to have direct consequences for the professional careers of everyone involved, no? (regardless of how it plays out in the end)

Also, may I humbly suggest that this is not an America/Japanese topic. The reality is that software gets written in Europe with American / Japanese laws in mind - it would be supremely impractical to settle for software that is (temporarily) legal only in a part of a completely interlinked world. Americal software patents affect us directly here in Europe, already today.