Basil Chupin wrote:
Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett wrote:
On Sunday 12 November 2006 19:47, Alexey Eremenko wrote:
Hi all !
Since we have made a deal with MS about patents, I would like to ask include MS-patented Windows Media Codecs (WMA/WMV) with both openSUSE 10.2 and future SUSE versions... (including Enterprise). The code exists (on packman sites - the only problem was patents, which is solved now).
After all, we must use that pact to our advantage.
What do you think ?
Novell has no deal with Microsoft about patents. Novell can't ship patented stuff.
The only deal that was made is, if ever patented stuff is found, MS will not sue customer and viceversa, but the code will be removed anyway.
You know. 1% of the population can undertand what they read, that is why we get so much fud in the blogs, and now those fashion "Goodbye SUSE I am changing distro announcements".
This link was posted in another forum:
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20061107194320461
Read the article.
Cheers.
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