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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A end-user cannot even get a CSS license only hardware/software creators/sellers so it certainly cannot be up to me as a end-user to pay a CSS royalty fee so I am afraid it is up to the software guru that wrote the infringing code and if he lives in adu-dabi then I guess we are both off the hook!
That being said, if there is a good alternative to patent covered formats/codec then I use the alternative but if they have the market locked up and under control then IMO that is unfair and I simply ignore any patent issue and use whatever.
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