On Sunday 05 November 2006 01:17, Andreas Jaeger wrote: > > That is interesting. It would be a good idea for Novell to put out some > > additional explanatory material in the next few days, addressing the > > various excitable comments that have been made in discussions on this. > > I expect something like this to happen soon.
It's really worth it. Novell seems to go from one PR fiasco to another. And RH for one has certainly learned how to take advantage of it. > > In particular, is Novell suggesting that there is some truth to the > > suggestion that parts of Linux infringe patents, or is it simply > > accepting that Microsoft has rights over its own stuff (eg codecs)? Most > > comments on the net tend to assume the former, but I would have thought > > the latter is equally plausible. > > Not at all. We're of the opinion that there are no patent > infringements right now in Linux and the deal does not imply that we > think so. There 're just a lot of customers that want to be on the > safe side and we help to protect them *if* such a case applies. Novell didn't say it, but Ballmer did. He claimed MS can sue any other distributor any time. And in a way, this does seem that Novell helped MS to distribute FUD. Be more careful next time. Fear that Novell will become MSs next FUD engine is really rather realistic. You have already been used in this context once. Please don't let that happen again. -- // Janne --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
