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Submission + - Microsoft gets Documentation before OSS Community (informationweek.com)

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flydpnkrtn

on Saturday June 02, 2007 @03:55PM

flydpnkrtn writes: "From the InformationWeek article: "Under its controversial alliance with Novell, Microsoft is entitled to receive key technical documentation from the Linux distributor even if that documentation is not generally available to open source software developers, according to a Novell document."

Also from the article:"In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission Friday, Novell revealed a number of new details about the Microsoft deal."

Is this just more Novell-bashing material? Or is this "no big deal"? And of course this type of thing runs contrary to the 'spirit of the GPL'..."

Comment Re:Open Source Funding... (Score 1) 610

by ewlooney on Tuesday March 21, 2006 @04:50PM (#14966999) Attached to: OpenBSD Project in Financial Danger

>"The money you make from your job should be enough to support your family comfortably. As
> soon as you start getting into investment, there's obviously a problem."

Sure. As long as you can work and want to for the rest of your care-providing life. But what if while you're hugging a tree it falls on you and you can't go to work?

Careful and diligent investing is the only way to financial freedom. I'm all for living below my means, but that's irrelevant to the discussion.

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