Kevin Donnelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Friday 03 November 2006 04:08, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: >> I wouldn't call that selling the users down the river. Independent of >> the fate of Novell the deal will stop worries about MS killing the open >> source movement with patents. > > Yes, though it's unclear from the press release whether the patent ceasefire > is in perpetuity, or merely for the duration of the Novell agreement (up to > 2012, IIRC). I got the impression it was the latter, so there is the > difficulty that Microsoft could argue in any future legal assault that one of > the leading distro makers explicitly accepted there were patent issues in > Linux. That's not so good.
This one is irrevocable - for ever, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.suse.de/~aj/ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126
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