Ubuntu reaches out to embarrassed SuSE devs

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Sat Nov 25 23:52:55 UTC 2006


On Sat, 2006-11-25 at 17:11, Alan wrote:
> > > who struck a deal with Microsoft which is borderline on the GPL.
> > 
> > Isn't 'illegal to distribute' something that is decided by
> > the copyright/patent owner, not some slightly interested
> > bystanders? 
> 
> For the kernel I *am* a copyright holder. 

And how is what you are doing any different than Ballmer's
claims that the kernel infringes on Microsoft's patents?

I guess I would find it somewhat amusing if a Linux
distribution omitted the kernel and made you download
your own copy separately due to the FUD surrounding it
from all directions.

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  Les Mikesell
   lesmikesell at gmail.com





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