Keep up the good momentum [LWN.net]

Keep up the good momentum

Posted Apr 22, 2003 4:03 UTC (Tue) by coriordan (guest, #7544)
In reply to: Keep up the good momentum by kmagnusson
Parent article: An apology from Novell's CEO

> I don't want to disappoint anyone

I'm not dissapointed. Solaris remaining proprietary does not change the
fact that OpenOffice is GPL. I use Free Software. I descriminate by
license, not by vendor.

> when we develop Linux kernel code, we will of course contribute these
> improvements to the developer community under the GPL

(as is required by law)

> Novell is evaluating which of its proprietary technologies are good
> candidates for open source release, and we will likely use the GPL

I look forward to hearing about this, I hope that the GPL'd parts are
independantly useful.

See you in the media.
Ciaran O'Riordan

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