Mahesh T. Pai wrote: > 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!!!
Microsoft cannot change the license of GPL software. I am sure there lawyers understand this more than anything else. What they are probably doing (and are misunderstood by the press as usual) is that they are allowing Dell in distributing SuSe Linux on OEM machines, which is perfectly fine as they are not modifying the distro as such. What is wrong in all this is that SuSe Linux will get an unfair priority to be preinstalled on Dell machines as compared to other distros. (what happens to the recent news of Ubuntu?). So just like the M$ tax that we we have been jumping about, we have to jump about for SuSe Linux tax too. :) - Sandip _______________________________________________ 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/
