[Fsf-friends] Re: Protest against Novell-Microsoft agreement

[Vihan Pandey]

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There are serious questions regarding how Novell intends to go on with its
> business. Developers are jumping ship. The very software that you sell is
> owned by parties who are now hostile to your company. The C library,
> essential to run every program on your system, is the property of the Free
> Software Foundation, which will surely relicense that library to LGPL 3.
> The
> leading developer of that library is a Red Hat employee. It's already been
> announced that GPL and LGPL 3 will contain terms that make it untenable to
> use while your patent agreement with Microsoft stands.
>
> The Samba software and hundreds of other programs will probably go a
> similar
> path. The Novell-Microsoft agreement has even had the power to make the
> Linux kernel developers and the large companies that support them take a
> fresh look at GPL 3. In the face of these changes, Novell will probably be
> stuck with old versions of the software, under old licenses, with Novell
> sustaining the entire cost and burden of maintaining that software. Novell
> will have to maintain its customers on old versions while the community
> takes GPL 3 versions of the same software into the future.


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Its a beautiful irony that Micro$oft's strategy to kill Freedom has only
succeeded in making it stronger.... again.

i guess at the end of the day every tyrannical power ends up fueling the
fires that incinerate it.

Great post Praveen :-)

Regards,

- vihan