Dan Bricklin Wants to Pick Your Brain re Novell-Microsoft Meeting
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| 1. Both Nat Friedman and Miguel de Icaza are reported to have
| visited Microsoft to say that the patent agreement as written
| isn't acceptable, and Microsoft said itself publicly that a change
| was needed. Where is the rewrite? When might we expect it? What
| will the changes be?
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| 3. For Novell: You promised the community that you would use your
| patent portfolio to protect Linux. Now you ally with this
| Microsoft statement, that the deal is "enabling both companies
| to recognize commercial value from their respective patent
| portfolios." Why did you break that promise? Do you care that
| the majority of the FOSS community is opposed to software
| patents? How do you reconcile the clear intent of GPLv2 that
| no restrictions, such as a patent license, can be added to
| the GPL and what you signed?
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