However, option vesting will accelerate upon a change in control of the Company 
and upon the declaration by the Board of the payment of a dividend to the 
common stockholders of the Company.
Anyway,  there was a filing today, and it's important. The license is 
perpetual, and no fees will be charged, Microsoft promised.
He didn't even wait until the ink was dry. They mention the patent aspect of 
the deal, by the way, prominently. Why did they choose GPL? In this case, it 
prefers to reserve its vote until after the air clears and everyone knows what 
issues are to be decided at trial.
You can't add any restrictions to the GPL license.
We strongly challenge those statements here. GlassFish is dual licensed, CDDL 
or GPL, as you please. That is a no no, so she ruled that the evidence that 
wasn't on the table with sufficient specificity, as ordered,  by the discovery 
cutoff deadline could not be used by SCO. They said they'd turn everything 
relevant over to Novell in plenty of time, and they did so. SCO, as you'll 
recall, did some FUDding in the media about alleged spoliation, which some 
SCO-supporting media types lapped up to the very last drop and made sound like 
a big deal. Of course, I would expect MSN would say that, and Microsoft has no 
trouble finding people in the media willing to express  what I think Microsoft 
would like said. So who can and who can't? They are an IP creator, not just a 
redistributor, so there is no royalty required to be paid to anybody.
Monopolies don't get to do just whatever enters their pretty little head, you 
know. The folks they need to speak to are the Software Freedom Law Center.
Usually a GPL gotcha? Unfortunately, Microsoft has misunderstood how the GPL 
works, and where it stands on the issue of patents, if one gives Microsoft 
every benefit of every doubt. That is why they care, and that is the difference.
Anyway, we certainly will never run out of reading material. I'm having a hard 
time buying that argument. Novell has a significant patent portfolio, and in 
reflection of this fact, the agreement we signed shows the overwhelming balance 
of payments being from Microsoft to Novell. StarOffice was protected, which 
kind of put a bit of shade over OpenOffice.
Schwartz says it's a curious thing if IBM is opposing the GPL. I believe that 
is obvious now. He also indicated he thought the Novell case should probably go 
first. No evidence was destroyed. So, the court has nothing to compel.
Of course, I would expect MSN would say that, and Microsoft has no trouble 
finding people in the media willing to express  what I think Microsoft would 
like said. 

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