Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> Ballmer on Novell, Linux and patents
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> | Since the announcement of the patent and business collaboration deal
> | between Microsoft and Novell two weeks ago, some have labeled
> | Novell a sell-out for making the agreement. But during a session
> | this morning at the Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS)
> | summit in Seattle, an audience member turned the question around onM
> | icrosoft CEO Steve Ballmer, asking if the Redmond company was selling
> | out by collaborating with a Linux vendor. Ballmer answered the
> | question with a long explanation of the Novell deal, from his
> | perspective. I'll post the full question and answer in the
> | extended entry, below. In particular, it will be interesting
> | to see how people react to Ballmer's comments on Microsoft,
> | Linux and intellectual property -- including his view that,
> | because of the Novell deal, "only a (Linux) customer who has
> | Suse Linux actually has paid properly for the use of
> | intellectual property from Microsoft." Additionally,
> | he reiterated Microsoft's interest in striking a similar
> | patent deal with Red Hat, something Red Hat says it won't do.
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http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/microsoft/archives/108806.asp?source=rss
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> Not much is new, but it comes right from the horse's (or baboon's) month.
Microsoft didn't perhaps get a patent for "A program or series of programs,
which provide access to hardware and present other services that can be
used by computer software applications", did they? Seeing as how no one
else applied for the patent, the patent office had no problems issuing it.
Ian
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