Linux royalties
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| Do we detect a pattern here? Is Microsoft getting rattled by Linux? Is
| Microsoft worried about the Oracle re-use of Red Hat Linux? (This probably
| helped Novell cosy up to Microsoft.) What happens if Sun does move Solaris
| to a GPL open source arrangement, as it has done with Java?
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| The Microsoft-promulgated idea that open source software can't be free is
| being criticised by Samba and by Sun's Jonathan Schwartz.
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| Microsoft is FUD'ing Linux with a vengeance. If it has a strong legal case
| for Linux using its IP in an unauthorised way then go to court. Don't do it
| through proxies like SCO. Don't do it by paying Novell at least $9 for
| every dollar it shells out in royalty payments to you. Talk about seemingly
| bribing your way to have a potential IP violator support your position. It
| reminds me of the behaviour a bully exhibits.
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http://www.techworld.com/storage/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=311&blogid=3
Now it becomes clear that Novell could contaminate Mono and OOo with
Microsoft code, so its patches need to be carefully checked or altogether
rejected. Novell is a Trojan horse to the kernel and Open Source projects
which reside in other distributions as well.
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