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Re: Groklaw watcher: Novell got $240 million from MS for SUSE subscript
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Alexander Terekhov |
Subject: |
Re: Groklaw watcher: Novell got $240 million from MS for SUSE subscriptions and $108 million for patent something |
Date: |
Wed, 08 Nov 2006 13:42:50 +0100 |
David Kastrup wrote:
[...]
> Now Novell is supposed to be an Open Source outlet, and they are
> _receiving_ net money for somewhat fuzzy patent/indemnification claims
Somewhat fuzzy? Oh dear GNutian dak, recall that Groklaw PJ's partner
OSRM and Eben's underling Dan (Ravicher of SFLC) made a study and
identified Microsoft as the holder of 27 of 283+ patents in "plain
vanilla kernel" alone. (What a nice free service and PR work for
Microsoft.)
http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3389071
(Linux's Patent Risk)
regards,
alexander.
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