10.20.08
Gemini version available ♊︎Quote of the Day: Why It’s Novell’s Fault
AT THE sight of this latest patent threats from Microsoft, says the following reader of TuxMachines:
This is why Novell should never have entered into such an agreement in the first place. Doing so acknowledges Microsoft’s patent claims in the eyes of Redmond. Now, they’ll try and hold this garbage over our heads. Software patents, and even patents themselves these days, are a joke. People are patenting stuff that was preexisting and developed elsewhere and even hardware patents have come to a point where a concept is patentable, even though no working model was ever produced. This is stifling competition and hurting the consumers.
Remember that Novell is merely a “mixed source” company, based on its own insistence [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]. █
“[W]e believe in Free Software and doing the right thing (a practice you appear to have given up on). Maybe it is time the term ‘open source’ also did the decent thing and died out with you.”
–Alan Cox to Eric Raymond
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Betto said,
October 20, 2008 at 9:31 pm
Hmmm, considering your friends:
http://slashdot.org/~SockDisclosure/journal/214377
Who knows who posted that comment. You might very well be (or asking people to) seeding other websites with these types of observations that fit yours, only to then use them as supporting arguments in your posts.
And if your buddies do that on Slashdot, who knows what else they’re doing elsewhere. Probably “showing up M$ shills” or something, I’m sure.
When it comes to reactions on the internet (which I see you like to quote often), I wouldn’t trust you or your friends any further than I can throw you. And I’m a beefy guy.