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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RE[6]: Question about patents
by dagw on Tue 5th Jun 2007 10:49
in reply to "RE[5]: Question about patents"
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No it makes sense that legal fees aren't automatically paid by the loser. That would be ripe for abuse.
Imagine if someone took you to court over something minor (that you had actually done) and you lost and where convicted to not only pay $10000 for whatever you where sued for, but also $500000 in legal fees, because the party that sued you decided to abuse the loser pays scheme and sorted out a kickback deal with their law firm.
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2006-05-18
Damn, you have a really weird legal system in the US.