Am Friday 08 December 2006 01:24 schrieb Darryl Gregorash:
On 2006-12-06 12:44, Ray David Whitmer wrote:
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True or false:
Novell agreed to pay a fee to Microsoft for patent indemnification of its users that is based upon the number of enterprise users who buy its product?
True or false:
As part of the interoperability issue, Novell may need to incorporate Microsoft-patented code into its non-OSS packages, for example an extension or two to OOo, or something in some Mono module, or whatever. Is The Wicked Witch of The West not entitled to remuneration for Novell using that code?
I have some doubt that we will do this, because of a number of rationals. But I can not guranatee this for 100% right now. However, what i can more or less guarantee, is that such modules/plugins, will not be part of the standard oss part of the distribution. It would be part of the non-oss add-on CD, if at all. So it will also be optional. bye adrian -- Adrian Schroeter SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany email: adrian@suse.de --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org