Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 11:50:34 +0100 From: des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?=) To: mchauber@gmx.net Cc: "FreeBSD, Advocacy" <freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: BSD folks position on GPL, Novell, IBM, SCO, and MS... Message-ID: <86vekzj151.fsf@dwp.des.no> In-Reply-To: <200611250942.38410.mchauber@gmx.net> (Mike Hauber's message of "Sat, 25 Nov 2006 09:42:37 -0500") References: <200611250942.38410.mchauber@gmx.net>
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Mike Hauber <mchauber@gmx.net> writes: > I was just wondering what the general consensus was on the GPL, Linux in > general, SCOs lawsuit, Sun's open sourcing, IBMs contributions to Linux, > Novell's contributions, Novell's deal with MS and how this really affects > SuSe (there's a lot of hype on that and I literally don't know what to > believe at this point). Why should we care? The SCO lawsuits are doubly irrelevant: firstly because SCO is not going to win, secondly because BSD is immune by virtue of the 1994 settlement with USL. As for the Novell-MS deal, I don't see how it affects BSD at all. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no
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