Objective?

Objective?

Posted Dec 26, 2006 19:16 UTC (Tue) by peace (guest, #10016)
In reply to: Objective? by niner
Parent article: Jeremy Allison Has Resigned from Novell to Protest MS Patent Deal (Groklaw)

Please note Steve Ballmers statements regarding this deal and tell us why you think this is not an attack on Free software?

Ballmer:
"Novell pays us some money for the right to tell customers that anybody who uses SUSE Linux is appropriately covered, this is important to us, because [otherwise] we believe every Linux customer basically has an undisclosed balance-sheet liability."

and plenty more.

The first software battle saw developers on the front lines. The next front will be populated by lawyers.

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