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Questions that need answering

Posted Dec 6, 2006 20:32 UTC (Wed) by HenrikH (guest, #31152)
In reply to: Questions that need answering by NigelK
Parent article: Of hypocrisy and the FSF (Libervis)

>If the FSF doesn't act against Microsoft and Novell
There is nothing in the Microsoft/Novell deal that is prohibited by the GPLv2 so exactly how do you plan the FSF should act against them?

If on the other hand Microsoft starts to collect on their patents and Novell plays their "safe card", then there will be breakage of GPLv2, but not before.

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Questions that need answering

Posted Dec 6, 2006 21:26 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

True. They'll (almost certainly[1]) hang legal fire until something
definitely wrong has taken place.

[1] Nothing is certain. RMS and Eben Moglen *could* go insane tomorrow and
sell the FSF to Darl McBride. It's just not terribly *likely*.