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List:       opensuse
Subject:    Re: [opensuse] SuSE tainted
From:       Anders Johansson <andjoh () rydsbo ! net>
Date:       2006-11-28 22:18:18
Message-ID: 200611282318.18734.andjoh () rydsbo ! net
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On Tuesday 28 November 2006 22:59, M Harris wrote:
> On Sunday 26 November 2006 00:08, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> > Especially: We will not - and we cannot
> > since it would violate the GPL - add knowingly patented code to GPL
> > code.
>
> 	We used to have an old joke back in my IBM days... "How can you tell if
> your manager is lying to you...?"
>
> 	"His lips move".
>
> 	ok, ok,  I got one...  how can you tell if an M$ cohort is lying to
> you....
>
> 	... uh, well, when their lips move???

Cool it with the insults, ok

Nothing in the MS agreement gives anyone the right to use any patented code, 
so not only would it be against the GPL, it would be against the law, and set 
Novell (not anyone else) up for a law suit

Plain enough? The only one that would have to pay for putting patented code 
into the distribution is Novell. It would be suicide, not community-cide

So if you can't trust honest people's honesty, at least trust their sense of 
self preservation
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