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Re: [News] [Linux] Dell Joins Microsoft/Novell Deal, Software Patents Mentioned

On Mon, 07 May 2007 09:19:12 +0100, Roy Schestowitz
<newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Dell Signs on With Microsoft, Novell
>
>,----[ Quote ]
>| The pact between Microsoft and Novell is primarily aimed at the
>| growing number of major companies and government agencies that
>| rely on both Redmond, Wash.-based Microsoft's patent-protected 
>| Windows and Novell's open-source Linux platform to run their computers.
>| 
>| To encourage more companies to choose Novell's open-source
>| platform, Microsoft has promised not to file patent-rights
>| lawsuits over any of its technology that's blended with Suse Linux.

In plain English...if we don't get our cut, we'll break your knees.




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