Reply on 21-11-2006 13:43:41 <<<
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
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
issue, 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 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. Dominique --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org