On Friday 03 November 2006 13:48, Anders Johansson wrote:
If at some point in the future, there should be a patent claim against code in the distribution, this deal means Novell customers and partners can be safe in the knowledge there won't be any patent lawyers knocking on the door
Really? What about the other Distros? If you should happen to find an infringement in SuSE, would it not also likely appear in Slack, TurboLinux and Debian? If only SuSE is protected, then the rest fold their tent under the onslaught of lawyers? Match, Set, and Game: Microsoft? All your Distros are belong to Bill? Novel has been saying all along in the SCO proceedings that everything they have given to Linux and everything they got when they bought SuSE is free and clear and GPL. So why worry about a possible infringement miraculously discovered in the future? Would Microsoft not have already taken action against such an infringement when they were in their just recently concluded bash linux mode? First Novel takes 50 mil from IBM to assure IBMs access to Linux code for their e-server line when the SuSE deal went down. Now they sign a "protection contract" with the neighborhood thugs, cross licensing them to use all the (GPL) code in Linux. What are we to think? -- _____________________________________ John Andersen