Novell could be banned from selling Linux

[david at thekramers.net (David Kramer)]

John Abreau wrote:
> On 2/4/07, David Kramer <david at thekramers.net> wrote:
>> http://today.reuters.com/misc/PrinterFriendlyPopup.aspx?type=technologyNews&storyID=2007-02-02T230933Z_01_N02280856_RTRUKOC_0_US-NOVELL-LINUX.xml
>>
>>
>> This is a horrible, horrible article that doesn't have a single line
>> explaining the justification for the proposed action.  I couldn't find a
>> better article on it, though, but I wanted to bring it up for discussion.
>>
>> Anyone else hear about this?
> 
> I had heard that the Reuters reporter had taken the whole thing
> out of context, and that the actual statements he was misquoting
> were about future version of the GNU toolchain being switched
> to GPL3, at which point Novell would be banned from distributing
> the new versions.

Hmm.  Yeah, that sounds about right.  I was a SUSE fan for quite a
while, but this whole MSFT deal is unbelievable.  I wish I could see
some sort of non-marketing-speak version of "How could this possibly
benefit the open source community".




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