____/ Mark Kent on Wednesday 23 April 2008 11:37 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> A company turns the Microsoft-Novell case into an open source business model
>>
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>>| Everybody seems to agree that software patents are bad: because of patent
>>| trolls, because the patent system is broken and overwhelmed or because
>>| they threaten FOSS. In short, people don?t want to pay for Linux.
>>|
>>| Yet even pro-open-source companies are making this argument that they have
>>| to build a patent portfolio so that to be able to defend themselves, just
>>| in case. Hey, even open source communities have adopted this ?I?m forced
>>| too? stance.
>>|
>>| Therefore it was only a matter of time before an open source company
>>| decides patents could be used to solidify open source dual-licensing
>>| schemes. Imagine the deal between Microsoft and Novell erected into a
>>| widespread open source dual-licensing scheme. Scary.
>> `----
>>
>> http://blog.milkingthegnu.org/2008/04/patent-based-op.html
>>
>
> Fortunately, software patents are not valid outside of Nafta and
> Australia.
Well, Novell gets people even in China to pay for that, unknowingly. This
Microsoft subsidiary needs to be stopped.
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