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

[shrek-m at gmx.de]

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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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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shrek-m