LinuxWorld: User Q&A with Novell CEO Ron Hovsepian
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| Q - You stated that Novell will ship GPL3? Then how will Novell support MS
| coupons and customer s with GPL3 software when Microsoft has explicitly said
| that they will not support or endorse GPL3? (pause for applause -- Jack)
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| A - Fundamentally what this relationship is, is that as a customer goes to
| redeem certificates the customer calls up Novell and redeems, and then with
| that certificate we will give them the most current release we are shipping
| to the market - including GPLv3 code. What Microsoft feels is they are not a
| legal party to the contract. In its simplest form it is a coupon that
| customers redeem and we’ll deliver to them latest distro on the shelf at that
| time.
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http://enterpriselinuxlog.blogs.techtarget.com/2007/08/08/linuxworld-user-qa-with-novell-ceo-ron-hovsepian/
http://tinyurl.com/3xaprl
He asked the wrong question.
Related:
Eben Moglen: GPLv3 not about MS and Novell (video)
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| Professor Moglen explains briefly about GPLv3's work on globalization
| of the software license, preventing harm to others by members of
| the community, and the most contentious in earlier drafts, DRM.
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http://community.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/05/17/1616214&from=rss
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