[opensuse-offtopic] Red Hat Linux users must pay (fwd)

[Keith Roberts]

Very funny?? article from opensuse list. This was THE reason 
I dumped SuSE distro last November, and came over to Fedora 
Core 6. I was quite satisfied with running SuSE Linux untill 
MS's IP protection deal (racket??) with Novell came about.

Please keep up the good work with Fedora & RHEL.

Kind Regards

Keith Roberts

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From: jfweber at gilweber.com
Subject: Re: [opensuse-offtopic] Red Hat Linux users must pay

On Wed October 10 2007, steve scratched these words onto a coconut
shell, hoping for an answer:
> be nice to see how this pans out, I myself am curious to see what
> patents are violated, if any at all.
>
>
> http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2007/10/16/227343/red-hat-linux-users-must-pay-for-microsoft-copyright-infringements-says.htm

Wasn't he saying Novell users must pay, even after the deal 
was made.. and they then had some of their lawyers saying 
the same stuff, after the deal was inked.. IIRC the guy from 
Novell said the deal most expressly does NOT pay or even say 
Novell is in the wrong over ip that might be patented.. MS 
has actually had a couple of their patents overturned I 
think I read somewhere.

Methinks throwingo out verbal bombs will make everyone shut up. I do NOT
think they want to go to court over the unspecified stuff.. because if
it turns out they a) do not hav a valid patent, b)the stuff isn't
actually IN any Linux distro... then suddenly they look really silly,
not that Ballmer would notice. But then all the folks paying now would
STOP, and sue them over the ransom they paid MS that they didn't
owe...  "blackmail"  comes to mind .

<shrug>

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j

I've lived in the real world enough, we're all here because we ain't all
there.
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