What does it mean for Microsoft
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| They get a new protocol licensee which I'm sure they'll be pleased to
| trumpet to the EU.
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| They get a renewed messaging platform for their continued
| infatuation with customers and patents instead of customers and
| solutions. It's a broken platform which shows no leadership, but that
| apparently won't stop them from pushing it.
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| They get to continue the messaging shades of grey around Microsoft
| Office Open XML and ODF. "Xandros and Microsoft share the view that
| competing office productivity applications should, by design,
| make it easy for customers to exchange files with one another."
| Microsoft sees its death in ODF. They will fight like a cornered
| rat and message appropriately.
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http://stephesblog.blogs.com/my_weblog/2007/06/the_latest_micr.html
Xandros Linux signs up for Microsoft patent protection
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| Microsoft will provide Xandros users with a patent covenant that
| protect users of the software from intellectual property claims.
| Microsoft will provide the patent license directly to the end user,
| which allows it to circumvent patent licensing requirements in the
| General Public Licence (GPL) that governs Linux.
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| [...]
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| Co-author of the GPLv3 Eben Moglen has denounced exclusive patent
| deals with Microsoft as a "divide and conquer" tactic that is
| designed to break up the open source community.
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| Microsoft and Xandros declined to comment on the implications of
| GPLv3 on the deal, pointing out that licence is currently in a
| draft stage and might still change.
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http://www.itnews.com.au/newsstory.aspx?CIaNID=53516&src=site-marq
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