[Discuss] Novell Speaks - Updated

[Alan W. Irwin]

Pamela Jones concisely responds to the strong contradictory statements from
MS and Novell about what the patent deal really means at
(http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20061120203431766).  If there is
such strong disagreement (i.e., no "meeting of the minds"), then Novell has
the legal right to drop the deal right away.  If they view themselves as a
member of the Linux community, then they have the moral obligation to drop
the deal as well.

Alan
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Alan W. Irwin

Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy,
University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca).

Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation
for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software
package (plplot.org); the Yorick front-end to PLplot (yplot.sf.net); the
Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project
(lbproject.sf.net).
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