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Novell: Fighting Microsoft's FUD machine (ZDNet)

Novell: Fighting Microsoft's FUD machine (ZDNet)

Posted Jun 23, 2004 21:13 UTC (Wed) by csm1975 (subscriber, #15864)
In reply to: Novell: Fighting Microsoft's FUD machine (ZDNet) by philips
Parent article: Novell: Fighting Microsoft's FUD machine (ZDNet)

>But this company first argued absolutely for open-sources and freedoms, and >then fliped to completely proprietary approach.

Eh? GPL licensed software is proprietary?

/me suspects the speaker does not know what he's talking about!


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Novell: Fighting Microsoft's FUD machine (ZDNet)

Posted Jun 23, 2004 21:39 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

The original poster is objecting to selling it for money, perhaps. Or selling support. (Never mind that Cygnus and the FSF have been doing similar things for years, and that the GNU Manifesto explicitly mentioned that both were good ideas.)

I think it's just envy of other people making money, myself. ;)

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