__/ [ GreyCloud ] on Friday 03 November 2006 21:13 \__
> Chirag Shukla wrote:
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>> Microsoft and Novell agreed Thursday to work together on marketing and
>> development of their respective products and pledged to make it easier
>> for Windows and Novell's Suse Linux to coexist in the data center.
>>
>> But included in that announcement is a patent cross-licensing agreement
>> that is raising concerns. As part of the agreement, Microsoft has said
>> it will not sue noncommercial Linux developers and users of Suse Linux,
>> but some worry that this move leaves the door open for the company to
>> sue other Linux companies or even Linux users.
>>
>> "This is actually really bad news," said Bruce Perens, a well-known
>> Linux advocate. "It sets up Microsoft to assert its patents against all
>> commercial open-source users. The deal is going to be, 'You have to
>> buy Microsoft-licensed Linux distribution from Novell or there is an
>> implicit threat that Microsoft will assert their patents against you."
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>> Source: http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=26338
>>
>> How creepy is that!?
>>
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http://news.com.com/2061-11729_3-6132391.html?part=rss&tag=6132391&subj=news
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> Quote of the day: 'Excuse me while I go throw up'
"Excuse me while I go throw up. I gather Microsoft no longer thinks Linux is
a cancer or communism. Now it just wants a patent royalty from it. Wasn't
that kinda SCO's dream at first? A kind of royalty on every box sold, every
server shipped? Blech. And this 'patent promise' is only for SUSE, so that
tells the discerning observer that Microsoft will likely be suing others. As
for Novell, if history means anything, it will end up Microsoft roadkill.
It's so funny to me that nobody ever remembers what comes *after* the
Embrace."
--PJ, Groklaw
Let's read that again if needed.
"Don't be fooled by the sense that Microsoft's deal to cross-license and
otherwise support Novell's Suse is a boost for Linux. The better way to look
at this deal is to think of it as the first major step in Microsoft's plan
to co-opt Linux and let its Windows monopoly live to dominate another day.
It's a strategy that has worked before, and, judging the relative market
clout of Suse vs. Windows, it's sure to succeed again."
--Enterprise Anti-Matter
"(Ballmer) has a fiduciary duty to sell Windows, Windows, Windows, and to
partner with whatever companies he thinks will help him sell more...Windows
and with those that help him kill...Linux. Which camp does Novell fit into?
Not sure, but I don't think it's in Novell's shareholder interest to help
Microsoft with either goal. This isn't about helping Linux (SUSE Linux or
otherwise), but rather about killing the only real threat to Microsoft's
dominance in the operating system market: Red Hat."
--Matt Asay on Open Source
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