Perens blasts Microsoft/Novell "protection racket"
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| Salt Lake City -- In a small conference room across the street from
| the location of Novell's BrainShare conference, free-software
| advocate Bruce Perens attacked Novell's patent deal with Microsoft
| and said that Novell was enabling Microsoft to run "a protection
| racket" with the threat of its patents.
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| More than that, though, Perens said, if the Novell-Microsoft patent deal is
| allowed to stand. It would take only as few as "two or three intellectual
| property law-suits" of open-source developers or small business at a cost
| of at least $5 million dollars a pop, to destroy open-source development.
| So, from where he sits, Novell is running a "protection racket" with "Big
| Mikey" as the enforcer
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http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS9126255519.html
FSF Corrects Novell's Steinman and a Request to End the Mystery
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| Well. He has achieved his goal of being extremely clear. But in
| doing so, I would have to say he has stooped to a new low of
| Not-Really-Part-of-the-FOSS-Community awful. It's not the only
| offensive statement in that interview, but it is the most serious.
| Perhaps he was misquoted. Let's give him the benefit of that one doubt.
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070317032834650
BrainShare: The Heart of Novell
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| For the first time, I decided to attend Novell's BrainShare conference.
| In the past I have been resistant to attending single-vendor sponsored
| shows, because once you attend one, you'd better get yourself to others,
| if only to avoid bias. I was able to get clearance for both BrainShare
| and Red Hat's Summit in May, so I figured I'd achieved my balance.
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http://blog.linuxtoday.com/blog/archives/070318-234645.html
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