[plug] Hans Reiser interviewed

[Clare Johnstone]

http://interviews.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/18/1516239

"You do all understand that while the GPL doesn't permit tying by license,
distros have now moved to using threats of invalidating support contracts
to achieve the market leverage they need to exclude competitors, yes? By
doing this they can exclude mainstream official kernels from being used,
exclude rival filesystems, exclude whatever might lead to less customer
lockin.....

This is why you should try to avoid buying support contracts from distros
and only buy support from those who agree to support you the customer
doing whatever you choose to do, even if it is something fringe like using
a kernel from Linus.;-) "

and much more all very pertinent. 

clare
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