[Foresight-distro] Re: license of "Foresight Linux"

[Jason Brooks]

The SUSE, Ximian and Immunix products that Novell acquired when they
acquired those companies have become more free under Novell's ownership.
Novell GPLed code from each of those firms that'd been proprietary before.

Novell is a proprietary software company that has not released all of its
software under open source licenses, that's true, but they've been moving in
the right direction.

Sorry if this is OT, but I was taken aback when I read your initial post,
most of which concerned Novell's relationship to open source.

I don't know who Scott Meyer is...


On 11/20/06, arnuld <arnuld3 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Check this out, Arnuld:
> >
> > http://www.novell.com/linux/microsoft/community_open_letter.html
>
> well, it has gone totally [OT] but i will put my view.  i already heard
> these 2:
>
>
> 1.) Novell-Microsoft agreement
> 2.) Java going OpenSource
>
> well, if you can search over "google groups" & do soem googling , then
> you will come to know that Novell is not committed to Free Softwares.
> (only RedHat has committed so) Novell is only commited to use
> OpenSource as a business tactic, tactic of making money and
> controlling the market like Microsoft. the only trouble for them is
> that people on Microsoft side are more talented when it comes to
> business & more idiot when it comes to programming. Bill Gates has
> become the richest man in the world with a much, much technically poor
> product. he had shown the world that if "Microsoft Bike" enters the
> market with *leaking* oil-tanks he will take over th entire globe
> with those bikes and BMW, HONDA, TVS & BAJAJ in India & all others
> will go down in sale to 10% even though they will be possessing the
> better products but customers do not want better products they are
> *guided & moulded* by "Brand Developement", customers are blind from
> the "inner side".(IIRC, in 1992 P&G alone spent $850 billion US on
> Brand Development)
>
> remembered IBM Licensing deal with Microsoft? who wonthe game? same
> will happen to Novell. just wait. on legal basis Novell is at loss but
> hey can not see. you can say I am wrong or i know nothing about
> business as i have never done the one. you are right & then by the
> same token isn't Scott Meyer an idiot ? he had never done any good
> amount of programming in C++, never wrote more than 100 C++ lines,
> never wrote any professional software, why does he admired then?  same
> question?
>
> think about it
>
> with refrence to *technical* leagal terms nothing beats GPL & FDL.
> well if some new license comes i will surely read it to know what it
> offers.
>
> thanks for your time.
>
>
> --arnuld
> http://arnuld.blogspot.com/
>