Re: Micros*ft deal

2007-07-01 Thread Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo
El jue, 21-06-2007 a las 21:40 +0200, Robert Millan escribió: I believe our silence says it all, no? If they want to donate us money for no 'carte blanche' back good, Their donations are welcome, their deals aren't. In fact, we could even lose our permission to use GPLv3 software if we

Re: Micros*ft deal

2007-07-01 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 11:03:03AM +0200, Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: El jue, 21-06-2007 a las 21:40 +0200, Robert Millan escribió: I believe our silence says it all, no? If they want to donate us money for no 'carte blanche' back good, Their donations are

Re: Micros*ft deal

2007-06-25 Thread Sam Hocevar
On Wed, Jun 20, 2007, Robert Millan wrote: Since every GNU/Linux distributor seems to be positioning with regards to possible patent deals with Microsoft, I thought we could do the same. Actually, it's totally unthinkable that a non-profit organization could do this kind of deal, in which

Re: Micros*ft deal

2007-06-25 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070621 09:40]: Actually, it's totally unthinkable that a non-profit organization could do this kind of deal, in which Microsoft pays you to perform hara-kiri by losing the right to distribute GPLv3 software. This is exactly what a positioning

Re: Micros*ft deal

2007-06-25 Thread Anthony Towns
On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 03:57:39PM +0200, Alexander Schmehl wrote: I would to see some kind of statement, too. How about To the best of our knowledge, Debian is free of patent encumberance. We will, however, happily accept patent indeminfications for our users, upstream developers, and derived

Re: Micros*ft deal

2007-06-21 Thread Martin Schulze
Robert Millan wrote: Hi, Since every GNU/Linux distributor seems to be positioning with regards to possible patent deals with Microsoft, I thought we could do the same. Actually, it's totally unthinkable that a non-profit organization could do this kind of deal, in which Microsoft pays

Re: Micros*ft deal

2007-06-21 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 06:08:16PM -0300, Gustavo Franco wrote: On 6/20/07, Robert Millan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Since every GNU/Linux distributor seems to be positioning with regards to possible patent deals with Microsoft, I thought we could do the same. Actually, it's totally

Re: Micros*ft deal

2007-06-21 Thread Florian Weimer
* Robert Millan: Since every GNU/Linux distributor seems to be positioning with regards to possible patent deals with Microsoft, I thought we could do the same. The patent deals between Microsoft and Linux vendors that have been announced so far deal with issues that do not seem particularly

Re: Micros*ft deal

2007-06-21 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On to, 2007-06-21 at 15:25 +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: The patent deals between Microsoft and Linux vendors that have been announced so far deal with issues that do not seem particularly relevant for the Debian project (except for the promise not to sue some people). Hey, that's an excellent

Re: Micros*ft deal

2007-06-21 Thread Robert Millan
On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 06:08:16PM -0300, Gustavo Franco wrote: On 6/20/07, Robert Millan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Since every GNU/Linux distributor seems to be positioning with regards to possible patent deals with Microsoft, I thought we could do the same. Actually, it's totally

Re: Micros*ft deal

2007-06-21 Thread Robert Millan
On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 03:50:21AM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 06:08:16PM -0300, Gustavo Franco wrote: On 6/20/07, Robert Millan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Since every GNU/Linux distributor seems to be positioning with regards to possible patent deals with

Re: Micros*ft deal

2007-06-21 Thread Robert Millan
On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 03:25:32PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: If Microsoft promises not to sue us, our mirror operators, and or end users, for no compensation except a joint press release (we haven't got much more we can offer anyway), it would be very stupid to reject such a deal. A

Micros*ft deal

2007-06-20 Thread Robert Millan
Hi, Since every GNU/Linux distributor seems to be positioning with regards to possible patent deals with Microsoft, I thought we could do the same. Actually, it's totally unthinkable that a non-profit organization could do this kind of deal, in which Microsoft pays you to perform hara-kiri by

Re: Micros*ft deal

2007-06-20 Thread Gustavo Franco
On 6/20/07, Robert Millan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Since every GNU/Linux distributor seems to be positioning with regards to possible patent deals with Microsoft, I thought we could do the same. Actually, it's totally unthinkable that a non-profit organization could do this kind of deal,