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- pogson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This really will negate a lot of the good will Dell is building with the GNU/Linux community. If GPLv3 is widely implemented as expected Dell will be tying itself to a ship's anchor with this move. If I deal with Dell, I do not want a penny to go to M$. I try to avoid the M$ tax by building from parts and dealing with ethical companies. Dell will be closing my door. The only tiny plus for this is Dell seems to be giving timid support to three distros: Suse, RedHat, and Ubuntu which is in line with the Linux community's wishes for some diversity. Dealing with the devil was not high on the list of suggestions on Ideastorm as I recall. The issue of patents with software and Linux is a pathetic attempt by M$ to cling to the market that is trying to escape monopoly.
- schestowitz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Oops. I produced a duplicate.
According the the Seattle P-I, Red Hat is not going to be affected. Still, there seems to be an effort to put a price tag (patent tax) on Linux. Have a l;ook at this article:
http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070507/dell_microsoft_novell.html?.v=4
Hauser is there spewing out FUD as usual. Reminds you of anything?
Microsoft/Novell patent deal -- a customer doesn't speak
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| I asked Matthew O'Neill, group head of distributed systems for HSBC
| global IT operations, whether he was ever worried about either Microsoft
| or Novell suing it for using the other company?s products.
|
| Before O'Neill could answer, however, Susan Hauser, general manager
| of strategic partnerships and licensing at Microsoft, chipped in to
| answer for him, giving the stock answer that the companies? customers
| had concerns about intellectual property and wanted peace of mind.
|
| Well here I was asking the companies' customer to explain his concerns
| about intellectual property and he wasn?t being given a chance to
| speak. Eventually he did make his feelings known, but it would seem
| HSBC isn?t as concerned about IP infringement as Microsoft.
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http://www.businessreviewonline.com/os/archives/2007/03/microsoftnovell.html
They can't stop singing about patents every time an announcement is made, can they?
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