Looking forward to 2007

Looking forward to 2007

Posted Jan 4, 2007 15:55 UTC (Thu) by cventers (subscriber, #31465)
Parent article: Looking forward to 2007

> The Microsoft/Novell deal will blow over with few consequences. Most of
> the angry ink has already been spilled, and it still seems unlikely
> that Microsoft will launch a patent attack against Linux. Novell will
> have lost credibility in the community, and may yet lose more
> developers, but it has not really changed the nature of the patent
> threat.

I think it's going to be interesting to see what happens when a GPLv3
with provisions designed to prevent the Microsoft tomfoolery comes out
and gets slapped on important projects like Samba. How will Novell
respond - cut the Microsoft contract up? Stop distributing Samba? Fork
Samba?

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