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Read the full document.A while back I had the excellent assistance of several members of the Utah Free Software community in running our protest against the Novell-Microsoft agreement. They requested that I appear as keynote speaker at their Utah Open Source Conference. I agreed. Sometime after that, they moved the venue of their conference to a Novell facility. They informed me of this, and I said that would be fine as long as Novell was aware that my talk would probably be very negative about their company. They seem to have accepted that. I think facing them this way is a good thing to do. So, I'll be appearing at Novell on Thursday, September 6. For the record, my appearance there doesn't mean I've changed my opinion - I believe the Novell-Microsoft agreement betrayed their own developers, and will say that to their face. - Bruce Perens
Read the full document.The Xandros distribution of Linux has entered into a patent deal with Microsoft similar to that of Novell.
Read the full document and add your signature.On Monday, March 19 2007, with assistance from Richard Stallman, community volunteers, and Pete Ashdown who was Utah's recent Democratic candidate for senator, I presented a press conference on the Novell-Microsoft agreement, across the street from Novell's Brainshare conference. Here are audio and images of the event, and an insightful blog entry by Justin Findlay and another by Aaron Toponce. Ashdown graciously introduced me. Richard Stallman gave me a statement to read verbatim, which is reproduced in Barbara Darrow's coverage at Channelweb. And the rest of what I talked about is in the audio files.
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Read the full document.Novell and Microsoft's software patent agreement betrays the rest of the Free Software community, including the very people who wrote Novell's own system, for Novell's sole financial benefit. Join Bruce Perens in signing an open letter to Novell's CEO Ron Hovsepian. (traducción al español [Spanish])
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