Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753092AbWKGU0O (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Nov 2006 15:26:14 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753098AbWKGU0O (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Nov 2006 15:26:14 -0500 Received: from rwcrmhc12.comcast.net ([216.148.227.152]:13753 "EHLO rwcrmhc12.comcast.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753089AbWKGU0O (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Nov 2006 15:26:14 -0500 Message-ID: <4550E910.6010107@wolfmountaingroup.com> Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2006 13:14:08 -0700 From: "Jeff V. Merkey" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050921 Red Hat/1.7.12-1.4.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Jeff V. Merkey" CC: Bernd Petrovitsch , Pavel Machek , Petr Baudis , Linux kernel Subject: Re: Faustian Pact between Novell and Microsoft References: <454A7BBB.10403@wolfmountaingroup.com> <20061103014907.GG11916@pasky.or.cz> <454AB477.9040107@wolfmountaingroup.com> <20061107081826.GD21655@elf.ucw.cz> <1162894662.19866.15.camel@tara.firmix.at> <4550BA59.1000701@wolfmountaingroup.com> In-Reply-To: <4550BA59.1000701@wolfmountaingroup.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1673 Lines: 52 Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > Bernd Petrovitsch wrote: > >> On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 09:18 +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: >> [...] >> >> >>> This is a watershed moment for Linux. It fundamentally changes the >>> rules of the game. We're really excited about this deal, and we hope >>> you are too. >>> >>> (from http://www.novell.com/linux/microsoft/openletter.html) only make >>> it worse, but acquisition? I'd hope not even mickey$oft has enough >>> cash for _that_. >>> >> >> >> And the first point in the list is "patents" .... >> >> Bernd >> >> > I can see the lights are coming on now for some folks now. > Jeff > /"Microsoft made it clear that only SUSE users and developers, as well as unsalaried Linux developers, are protected. 'Let me be clear about one thing, we don't license our intellectual property to Linux because of the way Linux licensing GPL framework works, that's not really a possibility,' said Microsoft chief executive, Steve Ballmer. 'Novell is actually just a proxy for its customers, and it's only for its customers,' he added. 'This does not apply to any forms of Linux other than Novell's SUSE Linux. And if people want to have peace and interoperability, they'll look at Novell's SUSE Linux. If they make other choices, they have all of the compliance and intellectual property issues that are associated with that.'" And those lights are bright indeed .... Jeff / - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/