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Samba Team Urges Novell To Reconsider
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'."
We don't have any of that. Try this, instead:
Microsoft: Supports all mission critical software that we use to run our business.
Linux: Runs our web site (not mission critical). Supports none of our business software.
You seem to be repeatedly spreading the typical MS spin in your several comments in this thread so far. MS *DOES* have a history of doing this, you will not rewrite history on us, especially recent history. Stop reading MS marketing material and open your eyes, ears and mind. And try reading groklaw once a year, you might learn something.
Cheers.
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I was responding to the childish troll about spyware and viruses. But no, I'm not worried about security or stability. A firewall and common sense takes care of security. Stability simply isn't an issue with MS products. Stability IS a problem with another product we're using right now, but I'm considering moving that function to a MORE STABLE version of it made by Microsoft.
Sorry, but I just don't think that anti-monopoly laws are ethically or morally sound. I tend to agree with Libertarians on this one. I see it as the government using force to interfere with private property.
Oh, that's brilliant. In one paragraph, you advocate for giving up our personal property rights to the government (or at some arbitrary amount of personal property, after which the government siezes it), and giving up personal rights to own intellectual property. Do you advocate that the convert to feudalism, so that we, the people, don't have to worry about pesky private property, and we let the nanny state take care of all of those desicions for us? You sound like you'd make a good serf.