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I don't have time to read through all the posts and discussions about this, but from what I did manage to read I got a general gut feeling that the "Nay" people are just sceptic without being able to pinpoint any specific evidence (and many times I get the impression they didn't even bother to actually read or watch the material released by Novell or Microsoft about the deal) while all the "Yay" people I read so far give (or at least attempt to give) a "Fiskist"[1] explanation of why this deal could be actually good for Linux. Here is another such take: [2].
On top of that - I don't buy the "Novell is selling out OpenSource" claims (again - I didn't see any supporting evidence to that claim so far) simply because as far as I understand basic copyright laws they can't - the code isn't theirs to give up the rights on.
I DO always suspect MS whenever they sign such deals (I keep remembering what happened to Spyglass[3], though I'm sure others can come up with more examples of what happens to companies/people who go to bed with MS), but so far I don't see a reason to punish a Linux company which did great things to advance Linux in the corporate world and DID give back a lot to the community (and I'm saying this as a long time Debian user).
1 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisking
2 - http://www.orangecrate.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=490
3 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spyglass
--Amos
I've read a little about this new deal between Novell and Microsoft. I saw
Linux Journal has an article which essentially says everyone should remove
SUSE and use some other distribution.
Does anyone have a clear view of
what the deal actually says or means?
I don't have time to read through all the posts and discussions about this, but from what I did manage to read I got a general gut feeling that the "Nay" people are just sceptic without being able to pinpoint any specific evidence (and many times I get the impression they didn't even bother to actually read or watch the material released by Novell or Microsoft about the deal) while all the "Yay" people I read so far give (or at least attempt to give) a "Fiskist"[1] explanation of why this deal could be actually good for Linux. Here is another such take: [2].
On top of that - I don't buy the "Novell is selling out OpenSource" claims (again - I didn't see any supporting evidence to that claim so far) simply because as far as I understand basic copyright laws they can't - the code isn't theirs to give up the rights on.
I DO always suspect MS whenever they sign such deals (I keep remembering what happened to Spyglass[3], though I'm sure others can come up with more examples of what happens to companies/people who go to bed with MS), but so far I don't see a reason to punish a Linux company which did great things to advance Linux in the corporate world and DID give back a lot to the community (and I'm saying this as a long time Debian user).
1 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisking
2 - http://www.orangecrate.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=490
3 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spyglass
--Amos
