Perens to rain on Novell's parade

Bruce Perens, director of Action on Technology Policy
<http://techp.org/> and initiator of the Open Letter to Novell
<http://techp.org/p/1> that has been signed by thousands, will hold a
press conference during Novell's /Brainshare/ conference in Salt Lake
City, Utah next week. The topics will be

    * The Microsoft-Novell agreement
    * GPL version 3 and how it will impede Novell from making use of new
      innovation by the Free Software community
    * Software patents vs. Free Software.

The event is open to working press and to Open Source community
representatives who will report the event online or help operate the
event. There is an attendee list. For admission and event details, write
to bruce at perens dot com.