Invitation to ubuntu developers

[Mario Vukelic]

On Fri, 2006-11-24 at 15:45 -0800, Corey Burger wrote:
> Please take all responses to sounder, as it is not appropriate for
> -devel.


On Fri, 2006-11-24 at 23:13 +0000, Shark Muddleworth wrote: 
> Canonical's recent decision to include proprietary GPL violating
> drivers in the default install, circumventing the copyright framework
> clearly articulated in the GPL has sent shockwaves through the
> community. If you are an ubuntu developer who is concerned about the
> long term consequences of this fact, you may be interested in opensuse

Wait a minute!!! What about this posting attributed to Mark Shuttleworth
to the OpenSuse mailing list:
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2006-11/msg03765.html

Quote:
"Novell’s decision to go to great lengths to circumvent the patent
framework clearly articulated in the GPL has sent shockwaves through the
community. If you are an OpenSUSE developer who is concerned about the
long term consequences of this pact, you may be interested in some of
the events happening next week as part of the Ubuntu Open Week ..."

It seems to have been sent earlier than the "Shark Muddleworth" posting
to ubuntu-devel. Is it genuine? If so, then this puts the "Shark
Muddleworth" posting in an entirely new light.  If it is not genuine,
then Mark should hop over to Slashdot correcting this story:
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/11/26/0152225