Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 4th Jun 2007 16:57 UTC, submitted by WillM
Microsoft, shrugging off licensing moves to prevent it from repeating its controversial patent deal with Novell, has signed a set of broad collaboration agreements with Linux provider Xandros that include an intellectual property assurance under which Microsoft will provide patent covenants for Xandros customers. In the meantime, Microsoft's covenant not to sue users of Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise will be extended to all General Public License v3 users as soon as Novell includes GPLv3 code within its Linux distribution, according to the Free Software Foundation.
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2005-07-26
Trenchsol,
Many of the items you mention are specifically excluded from the Microsoft deal (at least per the Novell information that was released). Anything that directly competes against an existing Microsoft product. OpenOffice was excluded by name, so the deal already had limitations on what was covered.
Reference: http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?newsID=8956&pagtype=s...