> None of that is a concern here. The "intellectual property risk" is only > a problem in the USA because they support software patents. We don't > have that in Europe, so the "intellectual propery risk" does not exist > in Europe. There is still "copyright protection" in Europe, but Linux > has the GPL license, so that is also not a business "risk". > > James This was not posted because of copyright/IP reasons, but rather the business model that the article implies Novell may be pushing for. Ico