On Friday 31 August 2007 11:50, Rahulkrishna Gupta wrote:
All the strengths and they go and shoot themselves in both feet. The deal brings Novell in M$ gunsight the moment it expires in 4 yrs. Ifact proly much earlier given that gplV3 adoption is happening a lot faster and Linus who was very opposed now finding it more to his liking.
- Speculation!!
Absolutely. Who cares if Novell sinks tomorrow.
- Also I would suggest you to read Clause 11( related to patents)
of GPL v3 in its entirety . I am not lawyer not do I have any legal background. But it doesn't it mention something about agreements made prior to 28 March 2007.
So you are going to give the the customer stuff dated 28 Mar 2007 or earlier in 2012?. Good for him i suppose.
- Closed source applications are only included in the enterprise
distributions ie. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server / Desktop which are any way not targeted at the home user segment. Why are they included ? Because the end customer wants the functionality and does not want to get into the mess of what is open-source and what is closed-source. They just want things to work. And FYI, any applications that have patent or license issues are not bundled with these distributions either.
That does not in any way change the fact that customers who use these apps are still exposed to the same problems they are trying to avoid. But like i said earlier each to his own poison.
- If you want a completely open-source product, look at openSUSE.
where is the distro licence? could not find it at openSuse.org
along with Redhat are the only two options government and industry can go for. No other distro offers support in India. In addition tamilnadu has just installed about 50,000 Suse computers across the state. These are facts. Live with them - no use spouting ideology - concretely what are we going to do about this?
explain the dangers to anyone who cares to listen.
- You are free to do that as is anybody else. But please provide
complete information/facts instead of opinionated statements lacking in facts
You need to read up Novells' website FIRST, instead of accusing others of FUD and trying to justify the Microvell deal when the data provided on Novell's website says things like "In this agreement, Novell and Microsoft each promise not to sue the other's customers for patent infringement."