On Friday 03 November 2006 16:14, Darryl Gregorash wrote:
That certainly depends on who put in the infringing code. If the kernel boffins, in all good faith, accept a kernel mod from Novell, only to find themselves and all non-Novell distros suddenly being sued by Microsoft,
I'm not worried about code put in by Novell NOW, because such code will already be looked upon with great suspicion. This hurry-up-deal had all the earmarks of something that was hustled into place to cover someone's exposed rear. (I don't believe for a minute the story about working on this for 6 months. Not the patent infringement portion anyway). The only reason you seek protection is because you know you infringed or you intend to infringe. I just which I knew where th impetus came from. What good is a technology license from Microsoft in a GPL distro? -- _____________________________________ John Andersen