Advice for Red Hat/Fedora

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday 19 February 2008, Todd Zullinger wrote:
>Gene Heskett wrote:
>> As a staunch believer in Open Source in the form of linux, I've
>> always wondered just where M$ would attack linux, and it appears
>> they have found an ally and a willing vehicle in Novel, who I am
>> told now owns gnome.
>
>Novell owns Gnome?  That's a little silly I think.

I may have miss-spoken, the exact quote is:
SuSe's corporate parent Novell owns Ximian as well, which is a GNOME 
operation. 

>> I'll let the data in this link speak for itself.
>>
>> <http://boycottnovell.com/2008/02/15/mono-contamination-in-ubuntu/>
>
>Looks like a lot of hot air and paranoia to me.
>
>FWIW, mono wasn't in Fedora for a while due to patent concerns.  The
>folks at Red Hat legal decided it was acceptable after careful
>scrutiny.  And I tend to think that they're pretty well aware of the
>potential for MS to try and sue them and other linux vendors out of
>business. :)

They must have a lot more faith in the public outcry protecting them than I 
have if M$ were to do something along those lines.  The courts theoretically 
work from facts, and public outcry has had little to do with the law as we've 
all seen rather clearly now for the last 30 years.

But I've raised the flag, and that's all I will or can do.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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