[Discussioni] Accordo MS/Novell

[Nicola A. Grossi]

Siccome sono passati in lista tanti link ma non quello in cui si spiega 
l'accordo... 

http://www.novell.com/linux/microsoft/ 

Troverete anche un link in cui
Novell risponde alla community:
http://www.novell.com/linux/microsoft/faq_opensource.html 


Da un comunicato si legge: 

Good for the Open Source Community 

Novell officials noted that one of their priorities in working toward the 
agreement with Microsoft was making sure the agreement made sense for the 
open source community. As part of today’s agreement, Novell and Microsoft 
are announcing three important commitments. First, Microsoft will work with 
Novell and actively contribute to several open source software projects, 
including projects focused on Office file formats and Web services 
management. Second, Microsoft will not assert its patents against individual 
noncommercial open source developers. And third, Microsoft is promising not 
to assert its patents against individual contributors to OpenSUSE.org whose 
code is included in the SUSE Linux Enterprise platform, including SUSE Linux 
Enterprise Server and SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop. 

“Today’s announcement by Microsoft and Novell marks a significant milestone 
in the adoption of Linux,” said Stuart Cohen, CEO of Open Source Development 
Labs. “By choosing a course of co-opetition, Microsoft acknowledges the 
critical role that open source plays today in an enterprise IT 
infrastructure. We appreciate the role Novell is playing to help bridge the 
gap between Microsoft and the open source community. We are glad to see 
these two companies collaborating to further diminish the legal threat posed 
to developers and customers by patent assertions. This is good for customer 
confidence in Linux, the open source community and the broader IT 
ecosystem.” 


Per chi non sapesse cos'è l'Open Source Development Labs:
http://www.osdl.org/ 

Quanto all'invito del Samba Team affinché Novell si rivolga al Software 
Freedom Law Center:
se Novell parla con Lessig (tenete presente il suo accordo con Sun circa il 
DRM e anche quello con la stessa M$), secondo voi cosa gli dice? 


Ideali ed interessi vanno a braccetto: questo lo insegna anche il software 
libero. 

Se parli con Stallman capisci cos'è un ideale (forse capisci anche cos'è 
l'integralismo), se parli col suo avvocato, capisci cos'è un interesse. 

Il problema sorge quando, parlando di un ideale con un idealista, questo ti 
manda dal suo avvocato. 

E' un mondo difficile. 

 

Saluti,
n.a.g.