Why are we waiting for GPL3?
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| If you are a "Non-Compensated" Hobbyist developer, Microsoft will not
| allow you to redistribute or share your code improvements without fear
| of litigation. And just forget it if you are a "corporation,
| partnership or other legal entity". This is what MS calls "community".
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| By entering into this deal with MS, Novell is in effect limiting
| recipient's rights to redistribute GPL?ed code using MS as a proxy.
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http://boycottnovell.com/?p=27
If you want to see some crazy stuff, head over to:
http://openubuntu.blogspot.com/2006/11/novell-will-fork-any-open-source-app.html
I was told the following
"I think its realistic, and crazy (on Novell's part). What this deal is
doing, per MS'
terms(http://www.microsoft.com/interop/msnovellcollab/community.mspx)
is saying anyone who wants to hack on the code can, and then give it to
Novell only via OpenSuSE.org. Anyone else who redistributes is subject to
lawsuit, does Novell really think that the compulsion to code is so great
that the community will continue to improve their proprietary code at
gunpoint?
The opensuse folks need to leave, en masse, as a signal to Novell that they
will need to write their own code (or collaborate with MS) from here on in.
Even if they did sidestep GPL2 (which I dont concede), they will not get
around GPL3. This might require alot of re-writing of code that cannot be
relicensed, but maybe that's the point - to slow down Linux on a massive
rewrite so they can catch up with vista 2, since Vista 1 is a trainwreck.
Also, IBM is eerily quiet, no?"
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