Please explain
Posted Nov 30, 2006 12:39 UTC (Thu) by
jospoortvliet (subscriber, #33164)
In reply to:
Please explain by BrucePerens
Parent article:
Who is being divisive?
i think you're being unfair to Novell. if you look at the reason why they
did this, i think it's hard to say they're doing wrong.
customers where afraid to use Novell's linux software because they didn't
want to get sued. now they wouldn't get sued, or at least, it would be
very unlikely. but they still didn't want Novell, likely or not. now
Novell makes this deal, and no matter if it really makes a difference or
not, it *feels* different to those customers afraid for patent trouble.
this was and i'm sure still is mostly about 'feeling' not 'fact'. the
money MS and Novell are paying each other is about 'feel', not 'fact', and
the effect on their customers is the same. and the reasons you and many
other Free Software users are against the deal is the same: 'feel',
not 'fact'.
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