Subject: GPL and the Novell/Microsoft agreement From: sterbini@di.uniroma1.it Date: Fri, November 3, 2006 12:16 pm To: crc@novell.com Dear Novell I am a professor at Rome 1 University, Computer Science. I tell my students to use Linux to learn, to program, to create. I have just read about the mutual agreement of Novell with Microsoft, where Microsoft asserts that they will not sue customers of the SUSE Linux distribution sold by Novell. This agreement is in blatant disagreement to the GPL license, that covers almost all the Linux and GNU code. The GNU license says that you cannot distribute the GPLed code unless all the people has the same protection. An agreement where only the Novell customers are protected from Microsoft litigation is against the GPL license. I really think that you must reconsider the agreement and ask Microsoft to enlarge the protection to EVERY Linux user/developer. Or else you should stop distributing Linux. I trust that you can see that the current agreement smells of the "embrace and destroy" smell. Until you make this change, I will tell to all my students to wait and stop using SUSE Linux and switch to other distributions. I will ask also my department and other departments to switch from SUSE Lunux to other Linux distribution. Best regards Andrea Sterbini -- Andrea Sterbini - Researcher Computer Science Department - University of Rome 1 "La Sapienza" Via Salaria 113 - 00198 Rome - Italy tel. +39-06-4991-8538 - fax. +39-06-8541-842
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