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| Time: 00:24 EST/05:24 GMT | News Source: *Linked Within Post* | Posted By: Kenneth van Surksum | ||
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Bruce Byfield: So Microsoft and Novell are extending their two year old partnership. Is anyone really surprised? Similar, if smaller, deals are announced by other partners on an almost daily basis. The truth is, the deal is not nearly as insightful as the reactions to it in the free and open source (FOSS) community.
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| #1 By 15406 (216.191.227.68) at 8/26/2008 8:04:42 AM |
| While Novell said at the time the original deal was signed that this in no way validated MS's patent FUD, MS still continues to spew this lie and Novell stays silent. Oh well, it's amazing what BS you can stand when someone's paying you $100M. |
| #2 By 92283 (24.64.223.204) at 8/26/2008 10:32:09 AM |
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"On the other hand, you have the attempts to muster outrage (and hence page hits) by the semi-professionals who make a career of sorts by alleging all sorts of conspiracies to destroy FOSS -- most of them external to the community, although internal ones will do if necessary."
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| #3 By 15406 (216.191.227.68) at 8/26/2008 10:47:16 AM |
| #2: Funny, I thought the worldwide media conspiracy was trying to destroy Vista, not Linux... |
| #4 By 92283 (142.32.208.234) at 8/26/2008 12:41:23 PM |
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"Many, too, may have believed that the provisions of the third version of the GNU General Public License (GPL) specifically designed to block similar deals in the future to have put the company in its place. After all, Novell needs to obey the license if it is going to distribute a GNU/Linux distribution.
But, the truth is that, by preventing similar deals, the GPL has given Novell a commercial advantage until its original deal with Microsoft expires four years from now. From a purely business perspective, what is more logical than using that advantage as strongly as possible while you still can? The community, though, would rather see repentance or utter ostracization, both of which are far more emotionally exciting than accepting that corporations are going to act like corporations, no matter what FOSS affiliations they have. " This post was edited by NotParkerToo on Tuesday, August 26, 2008 at 12:41. |
| #5 By 15406 (216.191.227.68) at 8/26/2008 2:21:02 PM |
| #4: Tell me, do you *ever* do any of your own thinking? Every post of yours is just cut & pasted text from some other source. And when you do venture outside of quoting others, you're as thick as a fence post. I understand that all you can do is quote others since it apparently hurts your head to think on your own. That said, I'm not sure why you posted that snippet. This is one guy's opinion and he certainly does not speak for the FOSS community, no matter how he frames his opinions. What does he even mean when he says corporations will act like corporations? That's like saying people are like people. OK.... which people, Hitler or Mother Theresa? Some corporations are good world citizens, and other convicted monopolist corporations not so much. |
| #6 By 92283 (70.66.78.103) at 8/26/2008 3:07:29 PM |
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"Ever since the open source section of the community set out to woo business in the late 1990s, many involved with FOSS have been unsure how to regard business. And they are even less sure how it actually works.
A minority, of course, cling to the original party-line, and condemn business unreservedly. Often in school and young, they have little real world experience to draw upon. This type was epitomized by one young programmer I used to know who used to react to cries of "Evil!" any time marketing strategy was even mentioned, and who assumed it was only a matter of time before the startup he worked for went over to the Dark Side. " |
| #7 By 15406 (216.191.227.68) at 8/26/2008 3:13:43 PM |
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"Basically, the “boundary” is simply an imaginary dotted line drawn around a volume of something when there is going to be a change in the internal energy of that something. Anything that passes across the boundary that effects a change in the internal energy of the something needs to be accounted for in the energy balance equation."
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