Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (144 mails)

[Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxx>]

Silviu Marin-Caea <silviu_marin-caea@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Tuesday 21 November 2006 12:29, Kevin Donnelly wrote:
>> On Tuesday 21 November 2006 09:52, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
>> > There's now an letter from our CEO Ron Hovsepian, I quote it in full
>> > below,
>>
>> This is a very useful development.  Paragraphs 3:
>> > Our interest in signing this agreement ...
>>
>> and 5:
>> > We disagree with the recent statements made by Microsoft
>>
>> are particularly helpful.
>
> What is this?  Doesn't smell right.
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2006/nov06/11-20Statement.mspx
>
> “We at Microsoft respect Novell's point of view on the patent issue, even 
> while we respectfully take a different view. Novell is absolutely right in 
> stating that it did not admit or acknowledge any patent problems as part of 
> entering into the patent collaboration agreement. At Microsoft we undertook 
> our own analysis of our patent portfolio and concluded that it was necessary 
> and important to create a patent covenant for customers of these products. We 
> are gratified that such a solution is now in place."

I consider this one important:
* "Novell is absolutely right in stating that it did not admit or
  acknowledge any patent problems as part of entering into the patent
  collaboration agreement."

And besides - Microsoft and Novell just disagree in some parts,

Andreas
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