Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
Stallman, who founded the FSF in 1984, said: "The deal creates a situation where Novell can distribute certain ostensibly free software, software whose license says that everyone else is free to redistribute it, but everyone else is systematically intimidated from doing so."
Among the software which is copyrighted by the FSF is the GNU C library, an essential part of every GNU/Linux distribution. Were Stallman to go ahead with his threat, then Novell would be stuck with old versions of all FSF-copyrighted software; the option of developing such software on one's own is out of the question.
"Software patents are dangerous to all software developers; they are an injustice," Stallman said. "In countries that have the foolish policy of allowing software patents, patent holders can use them to suppress a free program (or any program) entirely."
He said this method was "a blunt weapon" that was often hard to employ, and would not directly get the patent holders anything. "If patent holders can use their patents to corrupt distributors one by one, making the program non-free instead of suppressing it, they can more easily attack our freedom. That is what we will prevent."
David Bass
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