Novell Partners With EFF on Patent Busting

Seymour writes "Novell and the EFF have announced that Novell will be contributing to the EFF's Patent Busting Project. Novell will also support the EFF's efforts toward patent reform, including with the WIPO. Could this be Novell trying to get back in the good graces of Linux users? 'Novell's agreement with Microsoft has been a source of contention within open source circles, with one Red Hat executive accusing the company of appeasing Microsoft; others have accused Novell of violating the GPL with the agreement. Either way, signing the deal with Microsoft did a lot to sully Novell in the eyes of many Linux users, and Novell's decision to link up with the EFF on patents may have been made with an eye towards getting some of its street cred back with the OSS community.'"

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Re:Doesn't really work like that

[IwantToKeepAnon]

> If thats the case we would of seen similar
> reactions from Redhat or another enterprising
> companies that "sell" Linux.

Like the OP abandoned Novell, I won't use Redhat.
Not cuz it "sells" Linux, but b/c they said F/U,
we will only sell sever editions.

I've never tried Fedora Core. It maybe the
bestest distro ever .... I won't install it
period. Just my way of saying F/U RedHat.

When I was a child I thought as a child, I
reasoned as a child, I used SuSE as a child.
When I became a man, I put childish things
behind me, I installed Gentoo.

(Note: that was SuSE pre Novell, just so you know)