 Permalink for comment 274746 RE[3]: patents by segedunum on Thu
27th Sep 2007 11:55 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: patents" Member
since:  This is not true. They've persistently said that
Microsoft have no grounding on that point at all.  Then the deal
wasn't necessary.  So really it just makes Microsoft look silly.
You're just exceptionally naive if you believe that. All that's
happened is that Microsoft have managed to create the impression
amongst Novell's customers, and corpote customers elsewhere,
that Linux and open source software infringes on Microsoft's
patents and property.  Which part of Novell getting a lot of
money, boosting its Linux engineering team significantly,
selling more copies of SUSE Linux Enterprise, growing stocks...
is Novell looking "naive"?  Which part of Novell getting a one-
off payment to give Microsoft what it wants, Novell getting very
little in the way of the interoperability we've all heard of and
selling copies of SLES through Microsoft, where part of the
agreement is that these