Looks like a good news :
http://www.itnews.com.au/News/63623,eu-forces-microsoft-to-cage-open-source-...
But that's so different of what I read (MSFT being ready of enforcing 200 or so patents on Linux) that I have hard times believing it's just as good as it seems...
stF
On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 09:19 +0000, Stefan Champailler wrote:
Looks like a good news :
http://www.itnews.com.au/News/63623,eu-forces-microsoft-to-cage-open-source-...
But that's so different of what I read (MSFT being ready of enforcing 200 or so patents on Linux) that I have hard times believing it's just as good as it seems...
This seems to only apply if you do non-commercial work. Most people would like to do commercial things to actually make a living of Free Software. Not having the freedom to compete comercially with MS seems like a bad thing. The FFII also doesn't seem to think this is a very good thing: http://press.ffii.org/Press_releases/EU_tells_open_source_to_start_paying_MS...