Novell Won't Lose Right To Sell Linux

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday February 6, 2007 @05:28AM from the fact-straightening dept.

BinnyVA writes "You know the story about Novell losing the right to distribute Linux? Well, the Free Software Foundation has absolutely no control over Novell's distribution of Linux. A zealous Reuters reporter apparently conflated the FSF with the open source community in general, took some quotes out of context, and ended up with a sensational headline that fooled a number of people. The Novell deal is completely within the bounds of the GPL, GPLv3 isn't even done yet, and even when it is the Linux kernel is unlikely to be covered by it." Linux.com and Slashdot are both owned by OSTG.

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Re:Try removing glibc some time by friedman101 · 2007-02-06 05:49 · Score: 2, Funny

okay, i did it. now wh
Why I read Slashdot by flynt · 2007-02-06 05:54 · Score: 5, Funny

A zealous Reuters reporter apparently conflated the FSF with the open source community in general, took some quotes out of context, and ended up with a sensational headline that fooled a number of people.

This just reinforces why I read Slashdot instead of other news, there's no chance of something like this happening here.