> It's a psycological war, not a legal one. MS is in a hurry to launch Vista > and litigation would be too slow for this. It's about headlines, not > about lawsuits. >
MS has 2 goals: - divide as best it can the free software community to slow free software progress (mid-long term). Any acton against Novell helps them. - produce FUD about gnu/linux. It wants its customers to fear using gnu/linux enough that they don't leave Windows (short-term). Any reaction to an assumed threat of patent litigation that acknowledges such threat helps them. I'm not saying there is no threat. There's a big threat called swpats. It's a threat for free software and it's a threat for non free software and it's the same threat it was, it's just tha MS likes to remind us of it so that it keeps the most fearful/lazy thinkers of their customers. But the reaction is keep working against swpats laws and isntitutions, not against Novell, not even agaisnt MS, and not about any private entity. _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
