Samba Team Urges Novell To Reconsider 472
hde226868 writes "The team responsible for Samba has just asked Novell to reconsider its recent patent agreement with Microsoft, arguing that the agreement is a divisive agreement, effectively splitting the open source movement into groups with and without commercial status. Samba argues that with this move Novell is disregarding the will of the people who write the software sold by Novell and that Novell has 'no right to make self servicing deals on behalf of others which run contrary to the goals and ideals of the Free Software community'."
MS trying to nudge Linus towards GPLv3 (Score:5, Funny)
Move along.
Pure FUD (Score:1, Funny)
That is 100% pure FUD, completely baseless and ridiculous. MS doesn't have a history of doing this, and it makes no business sense that they would do so in the future.
Re:Pure FUD (Score:3, Funny)
No worries on that part... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Profit model isn't working (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Opposite (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Opposite (Score:3, Funny)
Right, because ATM's, Point of Sale machines, electronic billboards, fight schedule displays and many other business related machines running on MS software has such a proven track record. There certainly aren't any examples around of them failing.