● 10.20.08

●● Quote of the Day: Why It’s Novell’s Fault

Posted in Free/Libre Software, FUD, GNU/Linux, Microsoft, Novell, Patents at 8:28 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

AT THE sight of this latest patent threats from Microsoft, says the following reader of TuxMachines:

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This is why Novell should never have entered into such an agreement in the first place. Doing so acknowledges Microsoft’s patent claims in the eyes of Redmond. Now, they’ll try and hold this garbage over our heads. Software patents, and even patents themselves these days, are a joke. People are patenting stuff that was preexisting and developed elsewhere and even hardware patents have come to a point where a concept is patentable, even though no working model was ever produced. This is stifling competition and hurting the consumers.

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Remember that Novell is merely a “mixed source” company, based on its own insistence [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]. █

“[W]e believe in Free Software and doing the right thing (a practice you appear to have given up on). Maybe it is time the term ‘open source’ also did the decent thing and died out with you.”

–Alan Cox to Eric Raymond

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