[Gllug] Microsoft announces deals with Lynux !

[Adrian McMenamin]

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?
>
> (2) Will these patents hold up in court?
>
> (3) Should these patents hold up in court?
>
> (4) Will anyone have the guts & money to try and oppose these patents?
>

They almost certainly (I would say certainly, but IANAL) have no validity
in Europe in any case.

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