Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 30th May 2007 09:43 UTC, submitted by mkools
"Details of a controversial patent agreement between Microsoft and Novell have been revealed in Novell's SEC filings. The text of the agreement is now publicly available, but some parts - including one whole page - have been redacted. Although most of the details surrounding the agreement have already been disclosed, there are a few aspects of the deal that weren't previously known. Of particular interest is the language that describes exceptions to the patent indemnification agreement."
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"So I'm not sure if MS make much money out of it [Visual Studio] anyway."
It's pretty well known that MS shoots for breaking even in its visual tools group. The amount of money they make on the backend from license sales due to apps written for the Windows platform more than makes up for it.
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2005-07-20
>Now if the Mono project ever created a substantially >good "clone" of Visual Studio then I would expect to see >Microsoft throwing lawsuits (and FUD) at them.
Quite apart from the difficulty in writing something as comprehensive as VS without substantial corporate backing (you're not going to get this sort of thing written in someones back bedroom, unlike eg open office or Eclipse), there is a free version called Visual Express so I'm not sure if MS make much money out of it anyway. VS is an enabling technology,cloning something like office on the other hand would understandably rise cause problems.