Keith Roberts 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
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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>
Has M$ released any list that show what and how users and developers
are "*violating the firm's intellectual property*" ....
I think it's time that Legal **Grins*** their teeth's and go medieval on
their ass...
Force M$ put there money where their mouth is and show how we are*
"violating the firm's intellectual property"*
At least legal cant sit idle while M$ discretized Red Hat and its users
and open source developers.
Best regards.
Johann B.
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