-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 El 2006-11-08 a las 10:15 +0100, Rafa Grimán escribió:
Una duda, en el artículo (y en muchos otros) pone: "Novell también efectuará pagos de royalty constante basados en un porcentaje de sus ingresos de sus productos de código abierto."
http://www.novell.com/linux/microsoft/faq.html | Under the patent agreement, both companies will make up-front payments | in exchange for a release from any potential liability for use of each | others patented intellectual property, with a net balancing payment from | Microsoft to Novell reflecting the larger applicable volume of | Microsoft's product shipments. Novell will also make running royalty | payments based on a percentage of its revenues from open source | products. http://www.novell.com/linux/microsoft/faq_opensource.html | 5. Novell's November 2 press release states that, "Novell will also make | running royalty payments based on a percentage of its revenues from | open source products." Are these payments for a patent license to | Novell? | No. Novell has no license or covenant not to sue from Microsoft under | this agreement. The payments are for Microsoft's covenant directly to | Novell's customers. By the same token, Microsoft's customers receive the | same covenant from Novell in return for payment from Microsoft to | Novell. Este puñetero faq lo han debido escribir abogados, no me entero. ¿Que rayos es covenant? |From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: | | Covenant \Cov"e*nant\ (k?v"?-nant), n. [OF. covenant, fr. F. & | OF. convenir to agree, L. convenire. See {Convene}.] | [1913 Webster] | 1. A mutual agreement of two or more persons or parties, or | one of the stipulations in such an agreement. | [1913 Webster] ... | 5. (Law) | (a) An undertaking, on sufficient consideration, in | writing and under seal, to do or to refrain from some | act or thing; a contract; a stipulation; also, the | document or writing containing the terms of agreement. | (b) A form of action for the violation of a promise or | contract under seal. | | Syn: Agreement; contract; compact; bargain; arrangement; | stipulation. | | Usage: {Covenant}, {Contract}, {Compact}, {Stipulation}. | These words all denote a mutual agreement between two | parties. Covenant is frequently used in a religious | sense; as, the covenant of works or of grace; a church | covenant; the Solemn League and Covenant. Contract is | the word most used in the business of life. Crabb and | Taylor are wrong in saying that a contract must always | be in writing. There are oral and implied contracts as | well as written ones, and these are equally enforced | by law. In legal usage, the word covenant has an | important place as connected with contracts. A compact | is only a stronger and more solemn contract. The term | is chiefly applied to political alliances. Thus, the | old Confederation was a compact between the States. | Under the present Federal Constitution, no individual | State can, without consent of Congress, enter into a | compact with any other State or foreign power. A | stipulation is one of the articles or provisions of a | contract. | [1913 Webster] Y mucho más que pone.
No entiendo por qué Novell tiene que pagarle royalties a MS por vender software GPL. Esto da a entender que Novell admite que hay software en SLES/SLED (y, por tanto en otras distros) que infringe patentes de MS, ¿no?
Léete ese FAQ y nos lo traduces al cristiano (no al español), que la parla de los abogados no hay quien la colija. Tu que estás o has estado metido en cosas comerciales ;-) - -- Saludos Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFFUbzTtTMYHG2NR9URAnQdAJ0Za6yKDCQo2paFFrMCfmNgTMVm5QCfW5IS PVN+aKVFYfxl1UQgIdH+XvE= =sN1K -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----