Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 22nd Nov 2006 22:51 UTC
While Microsoft may cast the Nov. 2 patent cooperation agreement it pushed on new partner Novell Inc. as a way to protect corporate users of the SUSE Linux operating system from potential lawsuits, CIOs today said they weren't worried in the first place.
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2006-06-14
The taskbar with start menu was patented in 1995-Dec-14 so it expires in 2015-Dec-14. 9 years from now.
I could seen the free GUIs being reworks for that long
to avoid it.