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Tag: GNU

Ballmer on Novell, Linux and patents

Ballmer on Novell, Linux and patents This smells like “SCO v IBM vol. II” to me. One commentor on the Post-Intelligencer website seems to elucidate clearly what’s going on: #16666 Posted by unregistered user at 11/17/06 7:15 a.m. So if Linux violates Microsoft’s patents, why doesn’t Microsoft say which patents are being violated and sue [...]

GPL More Trouble Than It’s Worth

FORTUNE: Legal pad This is a great example of the hypocrisy of the GNU GPL and the associated ideology that is so much baggage. From the GNU website: “Free software” is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of “free” as in “free speech”, not as in “free beer”. [...]