Microsoft: Door open to open-source pacts
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| On Monday, Microsoft's Bill Hilf, general manager for platform
| strategy, spoke further about the deal with Jeremy Kirk,
| addressing how Microsoft views its intellectual property
| relative to Linux.
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http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1521556187;fp;2;fpid;4
Red Hat lawyer is right about indemnification not mattering. But for the
wrong reasons
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| According to a new FAQ on Red Hat's Web site -- one that's primarily
| designed to spin the bilateral legal protection that Microsoft and
| Novell have assured to each other as a net positive for Red Hat --
| the North Carolina-based distributor of open source software will
| now offer indemnification to its Linux customers. Does it matter?
| According to Red Hat's deputy general counsel Mark Webbink,
| indemnification is not nearly as important as the Open Source
| Assurance Program that Red Hat already had in place.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=3886
Berlind opines that Microsoft is preparing to sue (judging by the damning
feed title). Red Hat naturally bemoans and dismisses the possibility.
On a positive note:
Microsoft's Linux Move Shines Light on Interoperability
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| Microsoft has finally acknowledged that Linux is here to stay. Last
| week, the Redmond giant struck a deal with Novell to ensure that its
| products will run just as well on Linux as on Windows. It's no longer
| about competition; now, it's all about interoperability.
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/54119.html
Take with a barrel of salt.
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