Novell's "Mixed Source" Announcement
Do you remember when Novell filed the Microsoft deal agreements with the SEC, its annual report said, "No one license is critical to our business?" I took that as a possible hint of their future direction, post GPLv3.
I take Novell's new press release, "Capgemini and Novell Enter Broad Mixed-Source Partnership", as confirmation. Steven Vaughan-Nichols says that corporate types will love this and will eat it all up:
Novell didn't win many friends in the open-source community with its Microsoft partnership. However, that deal, along with Novell's growing partnerships with enterprise software players such as SAP and now Capgemini are bound to win it friends in big business.
Maybe, at first they will. But what will they do when GPLv3 arrives? Where will the updates come from? It's a very foolish vendor that cuts itself off from its suppliers, and it's a very foolish company that buys from such a vendor, in my view, unless you have only a short-term need for Linux.
So this is the dream. Mixed source. How foolish is that?
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