GPLv3 can hit the Novell business hard
The Free Software Foundation may prohibit Novell from using newer versions of its open source code, thereby punishing you for working with Microsoft .
Financial experts believe that if Novell prohibits updating the software distributed under the GNU GPL license , it will lose in competition with Red Hat .
Analyst Global Equities Research, Trip Chowdhry, believes that Novell will have to spend about $ 200 million annually on research, development and marketing to stay afloat without the help of GNU.
The Free Software Foundation recently published a draft of the GPLv3 , a licensing agreement that they will use for their own software, as well as for software whose developers have agreed to its terms.
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"The unexpected agreement between Microsoft and Novell , announced in November, poses a serious threat to free software users," says the organization, adding that it will add amendments to the draft GNU GPLv3, "to eliminate this threat."
Financial experts believe that if Novell prohibits updating the software distributed under the GNU GPL license , it will lose in competition with Red Hat .
Analyst Global Equities Research, Trip Chowdhry, believes that Novell will have to spend about $ 200 million annually on research, development and marketing to stay afloat without the help of GNU.
The Free Software Foundation recently published a draft of the GPLv3 , a licensing agreement that they will use for their own software, as well as for software whose developers have agreed to its terms.
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"The unexpected agreement between Microsoft and Novell , announced in November, poses a serious threat to free software users," says the organization, adding that it will add amendments to the draft GNU GPLv3, "to eliminate this threat."
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/6123/
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