I guess all that chest-thumping from the FSF and followers about how MS and Novell are breaching the GPL by using these vouchers was just a load of hot air.

So, the GPL3 then...

* Software patents still a threat in certain countries regardless.

* "Tivoization" still happening.

* MS/Novell deal still blossoming.

What was the point of it again? Surely it wasn't just the FSF trying to appear relevant, was it? My that *was* a useful year of hot air, wasn't it?

Interesting.... that's all I can say. Novell have some good programmers and do a lot of important work. Why do they have to go and spoil it with these political fartings?

I heard a rumor Novell was about to commercially license ZFS from Sun - true? I would LOVE to get my hands on that... I don't care about paying royalties, I care about running my datacenter.

The comment above is obviously from a Microsoft employee or a paid shill.

The term for this type of "paid shill", as you call it, is an "astroturfer".

But then again, does Firefox support match MSIE support? OpenOffice and MSOffice? (that one's obvious) SAMBA and MS file shares? Mono and .NET?

Vice versa?

Each of those projects will live or die by their compatibility level. 100% will never be attained - the browser wars showed that.

90% might be good enough for most people. What's important is whether or not the remaining 10% could be lived without.

I'll still moan at you... if it can't be done easily with html+js then redo it... Not produce something that's useless... I'll ALWAYS moan about flash only or other such crap sites...

erm i think you probably got the IE and FF ones the wrong way round, but good point on the rest

Every license of Hyper-V comes with a license for SLES10, Bundling SLES is making microsoft's virtualization effort looking better.

SLES is the only supported linux guest os on HyperV (aka Microsoft vmware clone):

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/hyperv-supported-guest-os.aspx