From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xandros
On 2007-06-04, a "broad collaboration agreement" between Xandros and
Microsoft was announced.[8] The agreement included "patent covenants
[to not sue] Xandros customers", similar to the agreement that
Microsoft reached with Novell which has been widely criticized within
the free software community. To date, there has been no real evidence
that any patent infringement has occurred. Microsoft appears unwilling
to specify which patents it alleges to have been infringed. Because
this deal was signed after March 28, 2007, Xandros will apparently be
unable to distribute software licensed under version 3 of the GNU
General Public License while party to the patent arrangement.[9]
Presumably that is what is being referred to. I know nothing about
any deals with Fedora andor RHEL.
On Feb 13, 2008, at 4:13 PM, Richard Matthew McCutchen wrote:
On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 14:44 -0500, Shawn Wells wrote:
brian raszap wrote:
and it includes a patent protection warranty, when the MS guys
come a
knockin' you can say hey im running xandros and already paid the
MS tax.
As does Fedora and RHEL.
Does Fedora really come with a patent protection warranty even though
its users pay nothing to Red Hat in exchange?
Matt
