Re: Novel in bed with M$

I still don't get what Novell thinks they'll be getting out of this in real world benefits.

-j


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From: keith smith <klsmith2020@yahoo.com>
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Sent: Saturday, November 4, 2006 8:08:39 AM
Subject: Re: Novel in bed with M$

Who ever said it will get stuck in court so long it does not matter had a good point.

M$ will do what ever M$ wants to do. They have been doing business this way all the way back to 1978 or so.


JT Moree <moreejt@pcxperience.com> wrote: Craig White wrote:
> Microsoft can do anything that they wish with Samba with the exception
> of distributing it, at that point, the GPL license has teeth.

I don't really want to continue this thread but I think you're missing
my point. The company 'Microsoft' does not follow laws--whether US,
European, copyright, GPL, whatever. They have stolen code before--such
as staxx software utitilities in DOS--they don't comply with regs handed
down but judges or authorities--like giving out proper specs to
Windows
networking as demanded by US and European courts. And there are many
more examples . . . http://www.aaxnet.com/topics/msinc.html (don't know
how reliable it is I just googled for it and it was the third link).

Whether or not there is a MS sanctioned version of Linux (virtualized or
not) the company has never shown regard for copyright or the law so it
seems unlikely that they will start now. Of course it would be great if
I were wrong. ;)

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JT Morée
PC Xperience, Inc.

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