Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 27th Sep 2007 07:55 UTC, submitted by Augusto
"Two months ago, the Brazilian Linux community gathered around BR-Linux invited Novell to answer 10 questions sent and selected by the users, about the company's stance on Linux, open source, licenses, document formats and other subjects." "Novell has been very consistent on this issue and we have publicly stated that we do not believe that Linux infringes on any Microsoft patents. That being said, our agreement with Microsoft takes the patent issue off the table for customers. We have simply made the patent issue a non-event as part of a customer buying decision."
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2007-05-05
For myself, I really enjoyed the interview and I think it should eloquently put a vital "stab" into all the FUD that has circulated for so long.
Novell/SUSE is contributing to the Linux _desktop_ more than anyone else out there right now. That they endorse OOXML couldn't be further from the truth. They are part of the ODF alliance, and as they stated their, use it as their default format everywhere.
So, long live Novell and my personal thanks to them for contributing to so wonderfully to countless open source projects.