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Old 2007-07-18, 21:43   Link #17
Jinto
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Originally Posted by WanderingKnight View Post
@Jinto

But isn't the point of the closure of the Novell-deal loophole in GPLv3 that, by making MS a distributor of GPLv3 software, MS can't sue for patents?

You are right, this would be the case if Microsoft actually adopted/distributed GPLv3. But if Microsoft says no, there will be at best a solution where Novell must try to sell its stuff alone. Now that would be exactly what I meant... Microsoft would of course not develop or optimize the new GPLv3 software, therefore this is equal to slow the development of SUSE Linux down. From the point of view of Microsoft it is not an excuse but a necessity.
This would render the whole Novell/Microsoft deal useless and Novell would be there where it was before the deal... and like grey_moon pointed it out already, Novell is not the Salvation Army for the FSF.
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