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Re: [LUG] MS-Novell

 

On Friday 03 November 2006 09:25, john.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> I understand from an usually reliable source that Microsoft and Novell have
> reached an agreement to share patents and increase compatibility between
> their operating systems. This will affect SUSE positively and Red Hat
> negatively I gather.
>

Quite the opposite. People will avoid SuSE and Novell for dealing with 
Microsoft and possibly use Redhat/Fedora instead. This will create a lot of 
problems for Novell: anything they create that is covered by one of 
Microsoft's patents cannot be licensed under the GPL (since it requires that 
any patent license required for the code to be licensed to everyone). And if 
the code isn't GPL, how can they incorporate it into SuSE which is under the 
GPL?

This is probably the beginning of the end for Novell - Microsoft is the only 
winner here.

Regards,
David.

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