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Samba Team Urges Novell To Reconsider

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the think-twice dept.

hde226868 writes "The team responsible for Samba has just asked Novell to reconsider its recent patent agreement with Microsoft, arguing that the agreement is a divisive agreement, effectively splitting the open source movement into groups with and without commercial status. Samba argues that with this move Novell is disregarding the will of the people who write the software sold by Novell and that Novell has 'no right to make self servicing deals on behalf of others which run contrary to the goals and ideals of the Free Software community'."

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  1. MS trying to nudge Linus towards GPLv3 by zotz · · Score: 4, Funny

    This is just Microsoft trying to get Linus to reconsider and try and move the kernel to the GPLv3.

    Move along.

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  2. Pure FUD by NineNine · · Score: 1, Funny

    It's not about it being against the GPL, it's provide MSFT with an excuse, and an attack point with which to target open source developers.

    That is 100% pure FUD, completely baseless and ridiculous. MS doesn't have a history of doing this, and it makes no business sense that they would do so in the future.

    1. Re:Pure FUD by NineNine · · Score: 2, Funny

      They play hard, yes. So does every other business. So does my business. They do NOT have a history of aggressively suing patent infringers. In fact, they've started promising that they WILL NOT do this. And, they won't have any grounds to do so with this deal, unless there are some GPL programmers stealing code, which apparently rarely happens.

  3. No worries on that part... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    It is impossible to divide the Linux community any further even if you start putting individual members of it through a meat grinder.

  4. Re:Profit model isn't working by jimicus · · Score: 3, Funny

    And at least with a hooker you KNOW you're getting screwed.

  5. Re:Opposite by kclittle · · Score: 2, Funny

    Ah, you must mean the iCashRegister application suite.

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  6. Re:Opposite by iCEBaLM · · Score: 2, Funny

    So yes, I would give significantly more weight to a Linux that has MS's stamp of approval.

    Right, because ATM's, Point of Sale machines, electronic billboards, fight schedule displays and many other business related machines running on MS software has such a proven track record. There certainly aren't any examples around of them failing.