Silviu Marin-Caea
On Tuesday 21 November 2006 13:44, Dominique Leuenberger wrote:
I would say that Microsoft checked their software and found out that they were infringing Novell Patents. For this reason they pushed to this agreement and are now happy they have their customers save.
Then shouldn't it have to read "At Microsoft we undertook our own analysis of __Novell's__ 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."
It goes both directions: "Microsoft and Novell have agreed to disagree on whether certain open source offerings infringe Microsoft patents and whether certain Microsoft offerings infringe Novell patents." So, this sounds to me as if there is saying "MS infringe" and Microsoft saying "Linux infringes" - and the other side disagrees... Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj@suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj/ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126