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

[Fabio Comolli]

The article's date is Oct 16 2007, 5 days in the future....
Amazing...


On 10/11/07, Keith Roberts <keith at karsites.net> wrote:
> 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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> To: opensuse-offtopic at opensuse.org
> 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>
>
> --
> j
>
> I've lived in the real world enough, we're all here because we ain't all
> there.
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