[Yhslug] Bruce Perens: "Protest the Microsoft-Novell Patent Agreement"

[Matthew Gallagher]

While I may agree with the ideas put forth it in this petition, I strongly
disagree with its tone.
Threatening Novell drives them further away and makes the OSS community look
like a bunch of crazy zealots, which is absolutely the worst thing  to do if
you want to expand mind-share.
Furthermore, while Microsoft may have a role in attacking Linux using patent
trolls,accusing them of wrongdoing without at least citing a source or
specifying the troll company involved may make readers less inclined to take
the other claims presented seriously.
I do agree that far from securing users against litigation,Novell has opened
a Pandora's (or Bill's) box of troubles through their agreement with
Microsoft.

</rant>

I guess I just dont like petitions :)





On 1/3/07, Kevin Cole <kjcole at ubuntu.com > wrote:
>
> PROTEST THE MICROSOFT-NOVELL PATENT AGREEMENT
> URL: http://techp.org/petition/show/1
>
>    "Novell and Microsoft's software patent agreement betrays
>    the rest of the Free Software community, including the
>    very people who wrote Novell's own system, for Novell's
>    sole financial benefit. Join Bruce Perens in signing
>    an open letter to Novell's CEO Ron Hovsepian."
>
> (See the web site mentioned above to sign the petition.)
>
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