Who is being divisive? [LWN.net]

Who is being divisive?

Posted Nov 29, 2006 16:56 UTC (Wed) by gouyou (subscriber, #30290)
In reply to: Who is being divisive? by marduk
Parent article: Who is being divisive?

Just one note on being anti-Novell: most of the Free Software community is anti-patent, Novell is supporting software patent and is on the pro-software patent side in the current debate in Europe.

So if the deal with Mircosoft is not a reason, you have another one.

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Who is being divisive?

Posted Nov 29, 2006 17:44 UTC (Wed) by lmb (subscriber, #39048) [Link]

To do away with software patents, or to radically reform them, is a long-term plan. Pursuing it is not contradicted by contracts which, as a side-effect, include such provisions as discussed here.