Microsoft/Novell Partnership

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 08:36:10PM +0000, Peter P. wrote:
> Using the Linux word as you and he uses the word is actually frowned upon. It's
> supposed to be called GNU/Linux. So Linux is mostly the kernel, although the
> aggregate is called Linux by users. And the GPL which covers most of the
> aggregate does not permit 'limitations' of the kind Ballmer assumes. I think
> that he sees Novell/Linux as a foot in the legal door into GPL land, using
> contributed non-open IP embracing and extending existing things. He is going to
> have to find out for himself what the US Government and AT&T found out when they
> made the original Unix source non-free 20 years ago. History tends to repeat
> itself when the patterns are sufficiently similar and the players suffciently
> ignorant or arrogant of relevant precedents.

Some people don't give a darn what RMS thinks something should be
called.

Why not BSD/MIT/GNU/*/Linux while we are at it?

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