Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4498 mails)

[Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxx>]

Kevin Donnelly <kevin@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Friday 03 November 2006 04:08, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
>> I wouldn't call that selling the users down the river. Independent of
>> the fate of Novell the deal will stop worries about MS killing the open
>> source movement with patents.
>
> Yes, though it's unclear from the press release whether the patent ceasefire 
> is in perpetuity, or merely for the duration of the Novell agreement (up to 
> 2012, IIRC).  I got the impression it was the latter, so there is the 
> difficulty that Microsoft could argue in any future legal assault that one of 
> the leading distro makers explicitly accepted there were patent issues in 
> Linux.  That's not so good.  

This one is irrevocable - for ever,

Andreas 
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