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Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> Expect significant tweaks to the Microsoft-Novell Linux-use covenants
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| Seems the communities are not keen on the details of the agreement,
>| but at least Microsoft and Novell seem intent on reworking the issue.
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> http://blogs.zdnet.com/Gardner/index.php?p=2377
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>
> Posted before the following was made public:
>
> Is the Microsoft-Novell deal dead on arrival?
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>| The potentially historic Microsoft-Novell pact announced last week,
>| whereby Microsoft would grant patent peace to users of Novell's Suse
>| Linux software in exchange for royalty payments paid by Novell to
>| Microsoft, will be dead by mid-March, promises Eben Moglen, the
>| general counsel of the Free Software Foundation (FSF).
> `----
>
> http://money.cnn.com/blogs/legalpad/index.html
This deal is so similar to the SCO one it's amazing. Last time, in
order to be free of legal threat, you had to have a licence from SCO,
now, in order to be free of legal threat, you have to buy Suse from
Novell. Do Microsoft wonder why people get upset with them?
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| Mark Kent -- mark at ellandroad dot demon dot co dot uk |
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