7:01 p.m.
It has come...the end of the world as we know it. Microsoft and
Novell are now partners in crime. I really don't know if it's a good
thing or not.
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8:30 p.m.
New subject: The end of the world [but I feel fine]
On Friday 03 November 2006 19:01, Kevanf1 wrote:
It has come...the end of the world as we know it. Microsoft and
Novell are now partners in crime. I really don't know if it's a good
thing or not.
It's hard to be entirely sure - on the one hand, anything that
keeps wholly Free Software interoperable is good (and Michael
Meeks says the move is good on his blog, so it must be okay =^)
On the other, well there are a few problems. Some interesting
angles are discussed in a longish thread on the Open Document
Fellowship mailing list here:
http://lists.opendocumentfellowship.org/pipermail/odf-discuss/2006-Novemb...
I don't actually think this changes anything as far as Novell are concerned,
and the Free Software will be unaffected, so I'd probably save energy to
worry about BSF,`` trusted'' hardware, Blu-Ray DRM, software patents
re-introduced by the back door, Gordon Brown, illegal agreements
with OEMs/ISVs, the UK's lamentable state of IT education, and all of the
other pressing problems that Free Software has.
Hmm - you know looking at that list, I can't think why I bother getting
out of bed in the morning ;^0
- Richard
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4:36 p.m.
New subject: The end of the world [but I feel fine]
On 03/11/06, Richard Smedley <smedley358(a)btinternet.com> wrote:
On Friday 03 November 2006 19:01, Kevanf1 wrote:
> It has come...the end of the world as we know it. Microsoft and
> Novell are now partners in crime. I really don't know if it's a good
> thing or not.
It's hard to be entirely sure - on the one hand, anything that
keeps wholly Free Software interoperable is good (and Michael
Meeks says the move is good on his blog, so it must be okay =^)
On the other, well there are a few problems. Some interesting
angles are discussed in a longish thread on the Open Document
Fellowship mailing list here:
http://lists.opendocumentfellowship.org/pipermail/odf-discuss/2006-Novemb...
I don't actually think this changes anything as far as Novell are concerned,
and the Free Software will be unaffected, so I'd probably save energy to
worry about BSF,`` trusted'' hardware, Blu-Ray DRM, software patents
re-introduced by the back door, Gordon Brown, illegal agreements
with OEMs/ISVs, the UK's lamentable state of IT education, and all of the
other pressing problems that Free Software has.
Hmm - you know looking at that list, I can't think why I bother getting
out of bed in the morning ;^0
- Richard
Apparently there is some concern over the GPL. I didn't read
everything as it went into legalese speak :-( but Eben Moglen is
looking at it all very carefully and he is not a happy bunny.... but
then, with a name like that :-) *just kidding Eben, if this ever gets
out in the open*
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