The article's date is Oct 16 2007, 5 days in the future.... Amazing... On 10/11/07, Keith Roberts <keith@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Very funny?? article from opensuse list. This was THE reason > I dumped SuSE distro last November, and came over to Fedora > Core 6. I was quite satisfied with running SuSE Linux untill > MS's IP protection deal (racket??) with Novell came about. > > Please keep up the good work with Fedora & RHEL. > > Kind Regards > > Keith Roberts > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > To: opensuse-offtopic@xxxxxxxxxxxx > From: jfweber@xxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: [opensuse-offtopic] Red Hat Linux users must pay > > On Wed October 10 2007, steve scratched these words onto a coconut > shell, hoping for an answer: > > be nice to see how this pans out, I myself am curious to see what > > patents are violated, if any at all. > > > > > > http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2007/10/16/227343/red-hat-linux-users-must-pay-for-microsoft-copyright-infringements-says.htm > > Wasn't he saying Novell users must pay, even after the deal > was made.. and they then had some of their lawyers saying > the same stuff, after the deal was inked.. IIRC the guy from > Novell said the deal most expressly does NOT pay or even say > Novell is in the wrong over ip that might be patented.. MS > has actually had a couple of their patents overturned I > think I read somewhere. > > Methinks throwingo out verbal bombs will make everyone shut up. I do NOT > think they want to go to court over the unspecified stuff.. because if > it turns out they a) do not hav a valid patent, b)the stuff isn't > actually IN any Linux distro... then suddenly they look really silly, > not that Ballmer would notice. But then all the folks paying now would > STOP, and sue them over the ransom they paid MS that they didn't > owe... "blackmail" comes to mind . > > <shrug> > > -- > j > > I've lived in the real world enough, we're all here because we ain't all > there. > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-offtopic+unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxx > For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-offtopic+help@xxxxxxxxxxxx > > -- > fedora-test-list mailing list > fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list > -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
