The Linux Information Project has posted a rather provocatively titled list of 13 Reasons To Celebrate the New Microsoft-Novell Pact. Their list begins with the obvious: all of the hoopla around the deal is providing considerable publicity for Linux, as was the case with the SCO fiasco.
Moving on from that obvious beginning, it goes on [...]
Microsoft-Novell - A Reason To Celebrate?
Bruce Perens Says Linux Infringes MS Patents
In an open letter to Novell’s CEO, Bruce Hovsepian, Bruce Perens dismisses Hovespian’s statement, made in his own open letter, that Novell does not agree with Microsoft’s assertion that Linux users are infringing on Microsoft’s intellectual property by saying:
Let’s be truthful about software patents: there can be no non-trivial computer program, either proprietary or Free, [...]
Novell Responds to Microsoft, Groklaw FUD
Linux Watch, always on top of things, has a piece on the Open Letter to the Community from Novell that was released yesterday in response to the growing brouhaha over the Microsoft/Novell agreement. Not wasting time, the letter states:
“Our agreement with Microsoft is in no way an acknowledgment that Linux infringes upon any Microsoft intellectual [...]
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