[Gllug] Microsoft announces deals with Lynux !

[salsaman at xs4all.nl]

Adrian McMenamin wrote:

>On Fri, November 3, 2006 11:32 am, Richard Jones wrote:
>
>>On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 11:22:26AM +0000, paul at ma1.se wrote:
>>
>>>But what is the impact on the "community?" People who write and
>>>contribute "free" code under the GPL and this ends up in a distribution,
>>>with Microsoft getting a share of the proceeds.
>>
>>Well Novell are perfectly entitled to give a share of their profits to
>>Microsoft if they want to, I for one don't care :-)
>>
>>The real questions:
>>
>>(1) What are these supposed patents which cover Mono and OpenXML?
>
I believe M$ has some patents on some of the .net/mono libraries. Hence
most developers are avoiding using Mono, since M$ could turn around and
start enforcing their patents at any time.

Regarding OpenXML, I believe M$ has patents on the XML schemas used for
Office documents.

Re. Novell sharing profits with Microsoft - my own application, LiVES has
been included in several commercial distro's (including Linspire and
Mandriva), yet I've never received a single penny from any commercial
distributor for my work. So in this regard, the effect is zero (except
that I'd rather Suse got all the profits, rather than a percentage going
to M$).

Gabriel.
http://lives.sourceforge.net


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