Microsoft has had a history with Novell. Novell has entered suits and helped with Lawsuits against microsoft. Part of that payment might have been a sort of settlement or apology. On Thu Nov 16 10:22 , Saill White sent:

On 11/16/2006 06:47 AM, Martin Schlander wrote:

...

2) There's truth to rumours that Novell extorted MS with some patent dirt. (Rumour supported by Simon Phipps from Sun among others).

I was thinking about that possibility a bit more.

If they had uncovered Novell-patented ideas in MS code, then the obvious sweet move would be to sue the pants off everyone in Redmond. It wouldn't be such quick cash, but meanwhile they could reap the benefits of mass FUD amongst Microsoft customers who might turn to Suse out of fear that Novell would pull a reverse-SCO against them. THAT would have made them super-stars in Linux land.

Of course if it was someone else's patented ideas they uncovered... Hmm.

Still they should have come up with a better story to explain the cash exchange.

...

Martin

Saill --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org

--------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org