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[News] [Linux] Time is Running Out for Microsoft, Sun Promised to Align with Linux

  • Subject: [News] [Linux] Time is Running Out for Microsoft, Sun Promised to Align with Linux
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 01:09:34 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
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Nine days left for patent deals 

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| The GPLv3 is set to be published on June 29 and once that is done, any new 
| deal will be subject to the terms which it includes. 
| 
| This accounts for the desperation evident at Microsoft, with the folk at 
| Redmond trying to find any and all Linux companies to sign up. A bid to 
| fracture the Linux market, small though it is, and an attempt to spread fear 
| are behind this drive.   
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http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/13019/1090/

Enterprise Unix Roundup: Schwartz Extends Olive Branch to Linux  

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| Linux is not the competition; it's the Linux vendors, like Red Hat and 
| Novell, that give Sun fits. 
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http://www.serverwatch.com/eur/article.php/3684516#5958498022523326817

Sun said it would lend its patents if needed.

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