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Jeremy Allison Has Resigned from Novell to Protest MS Patent Deal (Groklaw)

Jeremy Allison Has Resigned from Novell to Protest MS Patent Deal (Groklaw)

Posted Dec 22, 2006 19:39 UTC (Fri) by cpm (guest, #3554)
In reply to: Jeremy Allison Has Resigned from Novell to Protest MS Patent Deal (Groklaw) by drag
Parent article: Jeremy Allison Has Resigned from Novell to Protest MS Patent Deal (Groklaw)

"Some governments may be adopting ODF for political reasons, "

And the same, and other governments may be adopting ODF because it's
the SANE thing to do. It's the RIGHT thing to do. All politics aside.
If politics is involved, it's involved in keeping governments from
adopting open and free standards.


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Jeremy Allison Has Resigned from Novell to Protest MS Patent Deal (Groklaw)

Posted Dec 23, 2006 11:55 UTC (Sat) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]

Politics is what your talking about.

Liberty is essentially a political persuit. The idea that information should be aviable to all end users without having ot pay Microsoft is a political thing.

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