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

[alan]

On Fri, 12 Oct 2007, shrek-m at gmx.de wrote:

> Keith Roberts schrieb:
>> 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.
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> http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20071011205044141
> Patent Infringement Lawsuit Filed Against Red Hat & Novell - Just Like 
> Ballmer Predicted
> Thursday, October 11 2007 @ 09:41 PM EDT
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>From what I have read of the description, anything that uses X is a 
violation of this "patent".  (At least any Window Manager with a desktop 
switcher, which is just about all of them.)

The same set of trolls have filed suit against Apple using the same patent 
claims.

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> http://www.heise.de/open/news/foren/go.shtml?read=1&msg_id=13691350&forum_id=125458
> "IP Innovation LLC is a subsidiary of Acacia, and Acacia recently
> appointed Brad Brunell, who worked for 16 years at Microsoft as
> general manager, intellectual property licensing. He's now a senior
> vice president. Other ex-Microsoft executives have also recently
> migrated to Acacia."
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