__/ [ cc ] on Tuesday 20 March 2007 10:45 \__
> On Mar 20, 4:32 am, Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>> __/ [ John A. Bailo ] on Tuesday 20 March 2007 06:12 \__
>>
>> > Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>
>> >> Perens blasts Microsoft/Novell "protection racket"
>>
>> >> | 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.
>>
>> > Good. Then those guys can get a payoff and maybe buy some new clothes.
>>
>> Johh, shut up, okay? It's not even funny.
>
> So Novell has a chance to spread Linux far and wide, and the Linux
> community is up in arms over it. Figures.
That's then type of thing Novell would have you believe. The amount of
damange it has done (and will continue to do) by far outweights the value of
these coupons, which Microsoft uses to create unfounded fear.
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