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Re: [News] [Linux] Eben Moglen Advises That Novell/Microsoft Eliminate Patent-related Parts of Their Deal

__/ [ Mark Kent ] on Friday 01 June 2007 15:19 \__

> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> __/ [ [H]omer ] on Friday 01 June 2007 05:27 \__
>> 
>>> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>>>> Eben Moglen: MS should remove patents from Novell agreement (video)
>>>> 
>>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>> | In this segment of our week-long series of video excerpts from our
>>>> | interview with Professor Eben Moglen at last week's Red Hat Summit
>>>> | in San Diego, he explains why it could be disastrous for Microsoft
>>>> | to continue the patent aggression that is part of their Novell
>>>> | agreement.
>>>> `----
>>>> 
>>>> http://community.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/05/17/1640207&tid=41&tid=12
>>> 
>>> Brief and to the point.
>>> 
>>> The upshot is, that ironically the IP that Microsoft sought to (further)
>>> protect with assurances from Novell, will be exactly the same IP that
>>> becomes exposed (read: threatened) to the license requirements of GPL3.
>>> 
>>> Of course that's putting it rather euphemistically. The *real*
>>> motivation was to produce "The SCO effect", but it looks like that
>>> strategy will seriously backfire, unless MS retreat from their very
>>> exposed position.
>>> 
>>> Interesting times.
>> 
>> That bad story is history. Here's the latest:
>> 
>> Microsoft Would Lose Patent Rights Under New Linux License Terms
>> 
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>| The final draft of GPLv3 states that companies that distribute
>>| open-source software cannot at the same time pursue patent claims
>>| against users of that software.
>> `----
>> 
>> http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=199800081
>> 
>> I am astounded (and at the same time very vexed) to find that Reuters is
>> still shilling for Microsoft by publishing lies and using anti-FSF
>> messages. The mainstream media has become utterly *DISGUSTING*.
>> 
> 
> I'm not entirely sure that Reuters would be doing this deliberately,
> more likely, they're just publishing what they're finding.  Microsoft
> have a very powerful, well funded and effective lobbying machine out
> there...

Journalists also have the responsibility to verify the correctness of what
they publish. A quick phonecall to the FSF would have prevented these lies
from making it into toner.

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