Paul Allen wrote:
How many people thought M$ would never do this?
Oh, please, this was obvious once Microsoft hired the guy from IBM whose primary raison d'etre was patent shakedowns. I'm amazed it took this long. Probably the GPLv3 forced the issue. If Microsoft doesn't act before that gets entrenched, their shakedowns won't work. In fact, it's not already clear whether it is too late. Quoting Groklaw: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070513234519615
I hope everyone out there understands now the importance of GPLv3. Read the article and you'll see that even Microsoft acknowledges that it can't use the Novell deal as a template, as it wished, for other such deals, because of GPLv3. Thank you, Eben Moglen.
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