Comments on: Microsoft ‘Has Acknowledged The Enterprise Role Of Linux’

By: Antonio

Antonio — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 23:38:18 +0000

This is just Novel PR.

By: Peter Judge

Peter Judge — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 06:53:46 +0000

… so balance is found elsewhere in the site.

We do not quote Prof Moglen as seeing “nothing but progress”. That’s Brockmeier speaking.

And when I spoke to Brockmeier I did not have the facts to hand about Prof Moglen’s comments on the Novell/Microsoft deal.

Is it possible that the professor’s involvement was sufficiently complex and productive that those inside the deal may have interpreted it as support?

We’re interested in more views here, and welcome volunteers for future interviews?

By: Sum Yung Gai

Sum Yung Gai — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 21:48:54 +0000

No, Prof. Moglen most emphatically did not “approve” of the deal. Matter of fact, he called Brad Smith of Microsoft and told him, “I think you should just walk away from the patent part of the deal now.”

Microsoft didn’t, and the result was GPLv3, which closed the loophole that allowed such deals to come about.

Furthermore, Prof. Moglen doesn’t “see nothing but progress”, as you put it. In fact, he sees the Microsoft/Novell deal, and other deals like it, as highly detrimental to Free Software.

–SYG

By: Peter Judge

Peter Judge — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 05:58:55 +0000

Thanks for the comment. This is an interview with one person – if you read the rest of our site, including articles linked from this interview, you’ll find the balance you are looking for.

Peter Judge

By: Disappointed, maybe even disgusted

Disappointed, maybe even disgusted — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 22:05:26 +0000

This reads like a press release. A spokesman says the critics are wrong; nothing heard from the other side, except as reported by the self-same spokesman.