On Monday May 14 2007 4:54:00 pm M Harris wrote: > So, Novell was offered the gambit and all of FOSS may have to pay... > > ... from the article: > > "According to open-software experts Microsoft is the real winner. The deal > with Novell allows Microsoft to go out and demonstrate it is correct about > Linux violating Microsoft patents, since Novell agreed to pay $40 million > not to have its Linux customers sued for violations." > > "Industry insiders are now weary of what may come of Microsoft's experts. > If Microsoft convinces the patent system that it is right, the open-source > industry could face potential meltdown. Eben Moglen, executive director of > the Software Freedom Law Center says a massive war is about to be waged on > the patent battlefield." > > http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=7269
And this has what to do with a technical issue with openSUSE Linux? Would you please, please, pretty please send this stuff to the real opensuse-offtopic list and leave this one for technical issues with openSUSE and its predecessors? Thanks, -- Stan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
