Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 15th May 2007 21:54 UTC, submitted by irbis
"Jerry Rosenthal, chief executive officer of Open Invention Network, has just issued a statement about the Fortune article, which I take as a warning to any litigious folks out there who might be thinking about litigation against Linux that any such action will have consequences. 'We stand ready to leverage our IP portfolio to maintain the open patent environment OIN has helped create,' the statement concludes." Sun's Schwartz chimes in too.
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2006-09-08
Two things:
1. Microsoft-Novell will be fixed in GPLv3. That's basically a royalty which the GPLv2 didn't think of.
2. With MS going after their own customers' for GNU/Linux royalties, that means those customers cannot distribute GPL'd software. Jeremy Allison also said this in his interview with Linux world in February this year.