Alexey Eremenko escribió: > There is a story, which I dislike at all ! > > link: > http://www.osnews.com/story.php/17662/OpenSUSE-Hobbled-by-Microsoft-Patents >
The articles about this matter are absolutely bullshit and have no relation with reality. All mayor distributions compiles freetype2 without the offending "subpixel antialiasing" MS patented code, this is nothing new or exclusive to openSUSE. The persons who wrote this kind of crap in slashdot or similar sites has no clue whatosever about the topic and they think the Novell/MS deal means we can start making openSUSE a legal minefield. let make it more clear... 1. MS did **not** (get this into your head once for all damn it !!) granted a patent license to Novell, but protection to **novell 's customers** ( gee.. is **that** hard to understand ?? I wonder..) 2. openSUSE as always (even more now) should be clear of legal problems, this articles are based in the misconception (f.e comments of trolls like Bruce Perens et all) that the novell/MS deal permit us to do whatever we want with the "supposed" "IP" of MS. 3. software patents are bad, but they exists, that's the awful truth :-( and we should deal with that in any or other way in the same way the rest of the linux universe does. 4. unfortunately,novell has marked the bug report as Novell-Only, this is of course not "open" discussion in anyway, but may be better than a bug report filled with a whole bunch of non-sensical comments or assertions. argh, the level of stupidity and ignorance from both writers and readers that believes on this articles is becoming very annoying **sigh**. /me shakes head.
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