Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (963 mails)

[Stan Goodman <stan.goodman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 03:55:20 on Friday Friday 26 November 2010, "David C. Rankin" 
<drankinatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 11/24/2010 02:32 PM, jsa wrote:
> > Pam over at Groklaw has this to say:
> >
> > Quote:
> > No doubt we'll find out in time. It is being reported that what it
> > will get is 882 patents. Blech. How many does Novell own? Is that
> > all of them? If so, will we get to watch Son of SCO, but with
> > patents this time? But keep in mind that the WordPerfect litigation
> > could be in this picture, and I wonder if this could be a kind of
> > deal to tactfully settle it out, with Microsoft paying to end it
> > this way? $450 million isn't a lot, though, so how could it be all
> > of the patents?
> > Nevertheless, selling any patents to Microsoft is like selling your
> > baby to a pedophile in the limited sense that you can reasonably
> > predict what it will do with the acquisition.
> >
> > Novell's CEO is telling "valued customers" in an email that it's a
> > merger agreement, that Novell believes "the transaction is great 
news
> > for our customers," that all contracts will be honored, and that the
> > IP sale to Linux's sworn enemy "will not impact customers", 
whatever
> > that means. Not a word about Linux and what it means for SUSE. 
Not a
> > word to reassure the community.
> > --endquote
> >
> > http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20101122130625952
>
> The curiosity to me is why have all these seemingly reasonable 
minded
> people having picked up on those couple of sentences about the
> intellectual property aspects of the deal. It had never really crossed
> my mind before I saw Pascal's announcement. To me it was like seeing 
a
> fish in your bathtub. It certainly stood out.

Why would it shock you to see a fish in my bathtub?

> I'm not worried about opensuse, I'm more curious about "what the 
hell
> are they talking about?"

-- 
Stan Goodman
Qiryat Tiv'on
Israel
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