On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 10:28:35PM -0500, simo wrote: > Rui you should get better information before calling doom. > There are enough documents to answer your questions. > > There is no carte-blanche for royalties on patents, and the EC was able > to force Microsoft to provide a no-patents agreement to parties like the > Samba Team (I am a Samba Team member btw) so that parties can get the > documentation without recognizing any specific patent.
Without licensing. Not without recognizing. There is no provision that will protect anyone from patent threat from Microsoft. > There is a specific list of patents Microsoft must disclose (see the > list attached to the agreement documents referenced in this thread > earlier). => recognizing MS Software Patents in EU > Now we know exactly which are the claims of Microsoft, we can avoid > patents or work around them. => recognizing MS Software Patents in EU This is so crystal clear... Rui -- Hail Eris! Today is Pungenday, the 8th day of Chaos in the YOLD 3174 + No matter how much you do, you never do enough -- unknown + Whatever you do will be insignificant, | but it is very important that you do it -- Gandhi + So let's do it...? _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
