Re: FRR package in Debian violates the GPL licence
On 21/03/2019, Eloi <entfe001@gmail.com> wrote:
> El 21/3/19 a les 11:17, Giacomo Tesio ha escrit:
>> So why do you think that this is a "toxic precedent"?
>
> No free software could run under Windows without proper Microsoft
> licensing: Firefox, Libreoffice...
>
> No free software could use or implement compatible Windows services,
> either server or client, without proper Microsoft licensing: Samba,
> rdesktop...
You are not looking at the whole picture. ;-)
Microsoft is distributing WSL.
Microsoft is distributing several Linux distros (which include
Firefox, Libreoffice...)
Microsoft is selling services based on Linux.
Microsoft even creating their own Linux distribution "Azure Sphere OS".
Europe taught Microsoft that they cannot abuse their dominant position.
Arguably other corporations need a recall on the topic too, despite
their OS being "open source". ;-)
> That would make Linux and Windows ecosystems fully disjoint. This would
> force me to use Windows to do the work I'm paid for and for which I've
> been using Debian for 10 years.
Sorry but this is FUD.
Look at the whole picture.
Microsoft is not going to face European antitrust again.
> OTOH, that would make the software patent problem fully irrelevant
> because copyright would cover what currently is being enfonced by patent
> licensing.
Indeed the current status is not free, despite the permissive licenses
and their rhetoric.
Giacomo
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