With a few blog posts by top execs, Novell ended out 2007 by admitting that cozying up with a monopolist, predatory company and invalidating all that is open source …was a great idea. Hey, they made off like a bandit with some sorely needed cash; who cares what the long term effects are on the community!read more | digg story
Microsoft to Novell: Respect
Statements yesterday from Novell and Microsoft sought to clarify and repair relations between the new friends, damaged by Steve Ballmer’s comments last week.
The heads of Novell fired off an angry letter in response to Ballmer that contained:
We disagree with the recent statements made by Microsoft on the topic of Linux and patents. Importantly, our agreement with Microsoft is in no way an acknowledgment that Linux infringes upon any Microsoft intellectual property. When we entered the patent cooperation agreement with Microsoft, Novell did not agree or admit that Linux or any other Novell offering violates Microsoft patents.
Moglen: How we’ll kill the Microsoft Novell deal
Eben Moglen, legal counsel to the Free Software Foundation, explains the attack on Linux technologies from monopolist Microsoft, and describes how the GPL v3 may save the open source world. Remember folks, whenever Microsoft tries to make a deal with a company, they never fail to achieve a basic objective: To embrace, extend, and extinguish…