What about Nat Friedman? [LWN.net]

What about Nat Friedman?

Posted Dec 21, 2006 22:50 UTC (Thu) by dmantione (guest, #4640)
In reply to: What about Nat Friedman? by BrucePerens
Parent article: Jeremy Allison Has Resigned from Novell to Protest MS Patent Deal (Groklaw)

The money Microsoft is paying to Novell exceeds their Linux revenues by a
large factor. Whatever ethics its has, a company cannot ignore the
business side of things. So, business won from ethics in this case, but
this is too little to consider Novell is not our enemy. They did and do
many good things for Linux.

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What about Nat Friedman?

Posted Dec 21, 2006 22:51 UTC (Thu) by dmantione (guest, #4640) [Link]

Correction: "this is too little to consider Novell is our enemy"

What about Nat Friedman?

Posted Dec 22, 2006 14:36 UTC (Fri) by skvidal (subscriber, #3094) [Link]

Ethics should always come before business decisions. Otherwise we end up with enron and worldcomm/mci and tyco. That's the shame of it all. We've actually been beaten into the idea that it's acceptable to do evil as long as it is in the name of business. So sad.