Marc Wiriadisastra wrote:
http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2200717/microsoft-sharpens-aims-patent
"People who use Red Hat, at least with respect to our intellectual
property, in a sense have an obligation to compensate us," Ballmer said
last week at a company event in London discussing online services in the
UK.
Is this going to affect Fedora indirectly?
(Speaking for myself)
We can only speculate on what is planned. Depends on whether this is
marketing FUD or legal action, it can affect everyone involved and not
just Fedora. Note the careful use of "People who use Red Hat" and not
Red Hat itself. Also the comments were made in London and not U.S and
that's important because different regions have difference laws on what
constitutes false advertising.
This one has the entire talk and you can see for yourself how well this
plays into the Microsoft Novell patent deal earlier.
http://www.betanews.com/article/Microsoft_Scrambling_to_Explain_Ballmer_Comment_on_Red_Hat_Linux/1191963805
Some other relevant links
http://tieguy.org/blog/2007/10/10/on-joe-on-patents/
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2193713,00.asp
http://www.press.redhat.com/2007/05/14/deploy-with-confidence/
Rahul
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