Expect significant tweaks to the Microsoft-Novell Linux-use covenants
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| 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
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).
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http://money.cnn.com/blogs/legalpad/index.html
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