Lokesh Bhog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How does this pact affect Linux? >
Bad for Microsoft's FUD campaign against Gnu/linux. According to groklaw, Dell purchased licenses for Suse enterprise Linux from Microsoft, NOT from Novell. That means, well, M$ is licensing the gnu/linux OS; which M$ cannot do unless it conforms to the GNU GPL, which means the viral clause in GPL applies to M$ patents!!! In other words, M$ has licensed its so-called patent arsenal to gnu/linux. (I am not longer a lawyer; this is not legal advice, and I have not read the M$-novell-Dell pact.) In Kerala, we have a saying - you will fall into the same pit you dug for others. I guess this is what happened to M$. I suggest that somebody who have enough money to go get a server running SLES from Dell; double quick, with all the sources. -- Mahesh T. Pai <<>> http://paivakil.blogspot.com/ free - (adj) able to act at will; not hampered; not under compulsion or restraint; free from obligations or duties; not bound to servitude; at liberty. _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
