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BearItAll <spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> Perhaps Microsoft will sue Red Hat for trademark infringement (vs.
>> copyright or patent)
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | That could be in the case. Especially since Novell, in its watershed
>> | deal with Microsoft, has taken great care to reiterate that it still
>> | believes that it has not infringed on any Microsoft patents. Why then
>> | would Novell pay such a huge sum of money (with a promise of longer-term
>> | royalities) if it really believed this? Answer? Microsoft may have
>> | presented Novell with compelling evidence that Linux (or something that
>> | Novell was distributing) infringes on its copyright. Or maybe a
>> | trademark (or a servicemark).
>> `----
>>
>
> Wrong way round there matey, MS is paying Novell the $348mil with a further
> $40mil later. In return for accepting this money Novell are immune from
> from the upcoming MS patent wars.
There won't be any patent wars. This is sabre rattling. Do you really
think a convicted monopolist is going to get away with a patent on using
an icon to launch a programme, or a patent on a battery charger which
plugs into a wall socket? Of course they won't, worse than that, the
publicity will do huge damage to their share price.
>
> MS fully intend to get control of Linux via patent bashing. Redhat have
> already turned them down, so there is likely to be a battle pending there.
MS can intend that they like, they /cannot/ control Linux, no matter how
much you claim that they can.
>
> So, with control (it's coming) of Novell
They've paid for it.
> and Redhat, MS are then free to
> either own Linux or destroy it.
What planet are you on? Are you drunk?
> When the Vista users realise what a pile of
> shite Vista is so go looking for alternatives, MS can choose that either
> they wont be an alternative (RIP-Linux) or they can choose to have a Linux
> there ready for it's customers to fall on, thus selling twice, one being
> the failing Vista then followed by a Linux os.
>
> Novell should have held out, there is no guarentee that the MS patent wars
> would do any better in court than the SCO patent wars. There is even less
> certainty of these patent wars ever being valid in the EU and far east. (I
> believe I'm right in saying that Japan and China have rejected those in the
> same way as the EU is, but I think it was quite a while ago I last heard
> them mentioned in this).
>
> Without this deal Novel had the strength of the Linux community behind it, I
> am not sure where they would stand now, in the middle of the battle field
> perhaps, not a good place to stand.
>
They're dead, unless GPL3 can rescue them.
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| Mark Kent -- mark at ellandroad dot demon dot co dot uk |
How many Bavarian Illuminati does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
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