On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 00:39 -0400, Matthew Flaschen wrote: > member greenarrow1 wrote: > > I cannot figure out why Kevin from Linspire decided to partner up with > > Microsoft mainly because he was one of the biggest protesters about > > the Novell/MS deal. > > Really? Do you have a source for this?
This letter would seem to contradict his current stance. http://www.linspire.com/linspire_letter_archives.php?id=36 I understand people change... money has a grand influence in a capitalist society. Tom > > > I am trying to figure out why he turned and was > > wondering, does he know something about Gpl3 I do not? The way I read > > the final draft Linspire would be doomed in the future for signing a > > deal with MS but after reading Kevin's remarks he does not think so. > > As far as I can tell, you're right. They're basically screwed unless > they back out of the deal. No need to speculate though. GPLv3 is in 11 > days, and I predict a lot of programs will jump right away (not to > mention GNU). It won't be long before GPLv3 updates are needed to > address critical security vulnerabilities, and we'll see what happens. > > Matthew Flaschen > > > _______________________________________________ > Advocate mailing list > [email protected] > http://badvista.fsf.org/mailman/listinfo/advocate _______________________________________________ Advocate mailing list [email protected] http://badvista.fsf.org/mailman/listinfo/advocate
