Re: GPLv3 comedy unfolding -- Linspire: "GPLv3 - Unforseen Consequences?"

2007-06-08 Thread Alexander Terekhov
Ciaran O'Riordan wrote: > > > We have customers who have switched from Linspire to Novell because > > Novell offers patent protection with Microsoft. > > GPLv3 will prevent what Novell did, so no more customers will leave Linspire > for this reason. Sez who? Novell welcomed "grandfathering" a

Re: GPLv3 comedy unfolding -- Linspire: "GPLv3 - Unforseen Consequences?"

2007-06-07 Thread Ciaran O'Riordan
> We have customers who have switched from Linspire to Novell because > Novell offers patent protection with Microsoft. GPLv3 will prevent what Novell did, so no more customers will leave Linspire for this reason. ...although users may still leave Linspire for other reasons, such as spreading FU

Re: GPLv3 comedy unfolding -- Linspire: "GPLv3 - Unforseen Consequences?"

2007-06-06 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
Qua, 2007-06-06 às 18:50 +0200, Alexander Terekhov escreveu: > More from Carmony: > > http://forum.freespire.org/showpost.php?p=63026&postcount=35 > > -- > We have customers who have switched from Linspire to Novell because > Novell offers patent protection with Microsoft. The FSF has been >

Re: GPLv3 comedy unfolding -- Linspire: "GPLv3 - Unforseen Consequences?"

2007-06-06 Thread Alexander Terekhov
More from Carmony: http://forum.freespire.org/showpost.php?p=63026&postcount=35 -- We have customers who have switched from Linspire to Novell because Novell offers patent protection with Microsoft. The FSF has been extremely vocal about v3 limiting these types of deals. I know for a fact tha

Re: GPLv3 comedy unfolding -- Linspire: "GPLv3 - Unforseen Consequences?"

2007-06-06 Thread Alexander Terekhov
http://www.linspire.com/linspire_letter.php -- GPLv3 - Unforseen Consequences? by Kevin Carmony (President & CEO Linspire, Inc.) June 5th, 2007 The FSF (Free Software Foundation) recently released their latest draft of the proposed new GPL license, "v3." In its current form, GPLv3 may uni