Novell May be Banned from Distributing Linux

Hymer writes "Reuters is reporting that Novell may be banned from selling Linux. In the wake of the (much maligned) Novell/Microsoft deal, the Free Software Foundation is reviewing Novell's right to sell the operating system at all. The foundation controls the rights to key parts of the operating system, and council for the organization said that 'the community wants to interfere any way it can' with the Novell business arrangement. No decision has yet been reached, but one should be made in the next two weeks." Is this a measured response, or an over-reaction to the Novell/Microsoft arrangement?

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Re:Of course this is bad for Linux

[Reality Master 101]

The only reason we are not all using Java desktops with a common intermediate layer is the Microsoft "take and break" implementation of the JVM.

Oh, please. The reason we're not using Java desktops is because (in the early days, at least) Java applications SUCKED. The GUI was ugly, they took forever to start-up, they were incredibly slow once they did run, and used an enormous amount of memory. I'll defer whether it's still the case, but Microsoft had nothing to do with Java's lack of adoption. If people wanted to write standard apps for Windows, they were certainly able to.