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Copyright Assignment
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| Copyright Assignment is a tricky topic in
| the FLOSS world.
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| The first time copyright assignment drew
| my attention was in how Novellâs go-oo
| hypocritically uses it as FUD against Open
| Office, and â of course â how ignorant
| and/or malicious mono apologists used it
| as a talking point.
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http://www.the-source.com/2010/02/copyright-assignment/
Microsoft/Novell: Breaking Down the Coupon Numbers
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| And what an investment it has been: an
| initial payment of US$348 million to
| Novell... with US$240 million tagged
| specifically for those infamous
| subscription certificates for SUSE
| Enterprise Linux to hand out or resell to
| interested customers. Indeed, this was the
| thrust of the SD Times article: that
| Microsoft is almost through passing these
| coupons out.
|
| The thought that was actually provoked
| came from this sentence in the article: "A
| total of 475 customers have used an
| unspecified number of coupons, according
| to Microsoft."
|
| This struck me as a very interesting
| figure, because after firing up XCalc, I
| figured out that if indeed just 475
| customers have received these coupons,
| then Microsoft has essentially subsidized
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES)
| deployments an average tune of
| US$505,263.16 per customer.
|
| Keep in mind that while we have no idea of
| how many actual single- or multi-year
| subscriptions were actually used with
| these disbursements, we can get a very
| rough idea based on Novell's current
| pricing structure of how many boxes this
| may represent.
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http://www.itworld.com/open-source/95009/microsoftnovell-breaking-down-coupon-numbers
"I've heard from Novell sales representatives that Microsoft sales executives have started
calling the Suse Linux Enterprise Server coupons "royalty payments"..."
--Matt Asay, formerly Novell, April 21st, 2008
Recent:
Ex-Novell developer releases port of Tomboy
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| A software developer who was sacked by Novell in the first quarter of this
| year has begun porting Tomboy, one of two Mono-dependent applications which
| is part of the GNOME desktop, to C++/Gtkmm.
|
| Hubert Figuiere , who is based in Canada, says this has nothing to do with
| Mono at all, though he is admittedly not a fan of the .NET clone which has
| been developed by Novell vice-president Miguel de Icaza.
|
| The port of Tomboy is called Gnote.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/24438/1231/
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