Novell Worries About GPL v3

An anonymous reader writes "In its annual report for the fiscal year ended October 31, 2006, Novell expressed concerns over how the new version of the GPL may affect their business. Microsoft might stop distributing Suse coupons if the GPL version 3 interferes with their agreement or puts Microsoft's patents at risk, ultimately causing Novell's business and operating results to be adversely affected."

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Re:A few reasons...

[Frosty Piss]

Than you can not realistically expect wide acceptance from commercial companies. And that means that society as a whole will never widely use OSS outside a narrow niche of networking and server applications. Beyond that, OSS will be rejected for specialized embedded applications (or, as happens, companies will ignore the GPL and use and lock down OSS anyway).

If you're demand perfect adherence to your idealistic political purpose (socialism) you'll have to accept that OSS will never be widely used in Enterprise applications outside networking and servers.