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Submission + - Community interview: Novell answers 10 questions (br-linux.org)

Knux writes: "Two months ago, the brazilian Linux community gathered around BR-Linux invited Novell to answer 10 questions sent and selected by the users, about the company's stance on Linux, open source, licenses, document formats and other subjects.

Novell accepted the invitation, and agreed to send the questions unchanged (except for the translation to English, provided by them) to the company's headquarters in the US. The answers came back, credited to Novell (no individual authorship), and were translated back to portuguese, for discussion among brazilian readers.

One of the questions, sent by the reader semente, wasn't answered at all, other answers look evasive, some of them repeat known company policy without adding much more meat to it (the deal was about interoperability, you know), but most of them may reveal more than a glimpse of unfiltered opinion: "Novell believes there should be one open standard and that standard is ODF", "We do not believe that Linux infringes on any Microsoft patents", "We welcome GPLv3", and so forth.
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